Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Amitayu Chakraborty works as Assistant Professor of English at Durgapur Women’s College. He did his PhD from Visva- Bharati in 2017. His doctoral dissertation was on Ngugi wa Thiong’o. He has a keen interest in postcolonial studies.

• IntroductionSection One: Why Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Again!)?Section Two: Conceptualising “Nationalism” and “Ethnicity”Section Three: Nation- Building, Political Tribalism, and Moral Ethnicity in Kenya/AfricaSection Four: About the Book1 The Phase of Anxiety (1950s– 1960s)Section One: Gendered Anxieties in The Black HermitSection Two: Clitoridectomal Anxieties in The River BetweenSection Three: Anxieties, Conflicts, and Violence in Weep Not, Child2 The Phase of Polemics (1960s– 1970s)Section One: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and the Trials of the Unheroic in A Grain of WheatSection Two: Moral Ethnicity and Marxist Revolution in Petals of BloodSection Three: Marxism and Mythopoeia in The Trial of Dedan Kimathi3 The Phase of Defiance (1970s onwards)Section One: Subaltern Self- Mastery and Dialogic Resistance in I Will Marry When I WantSection Two: Myth, Ethnicity, and Plurality in Devil on the Cross and MatigariSection Three: Globalectic Defiance in Wizard of the CrowConclusionThe Outcome: A Pursuit of Globalectics