Simon Gikandi is professor of English at Princeton University. His major fields of research and teaching are the Anglophone literatures and cultures of Africa, India, the Caribbean, and postcolonial Britian, the „Black” Atlantic, and the African diaspora. He is the author of numerous books, including
Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature,
Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism, and
Ngugi wa Thiong”o, which was chosen as a
Choice Outstanding Academic Publication. He is also the coeditor of
The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature and the editor of the
Routledge Encyclopedia of African Literature.Evan Mwangi is assistant professor of English specializing in twentieth-century Anglophone African literature at Northwestern University. Previously, he has taught at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and Ohio University, and his published works cover different areas of African oral narrative, theater, poetry, and fiction.
16 Ebooks de Simon Gikandi
Evan Mwangi & Simon Gikandi: The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945
The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 challenges the conventional belief that the English-language literary traditions of East Africa are restricted to the former Britis …
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Julie MacArthur: Dedan Kimathi on Trial
The transcript from this historic trial, long thought destroyed or hidden, unearths a piece of the British colonial archive at a critical point in the Mau Mau Rebellion. Its discovery and landmark pu …
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Simon Gikandi: Slavery and the Culture of Taste
It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste–the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics–existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in t …
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Simon Gikandi: Writing in Limbo
In Simon Gikandi’s view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernity—a relationship in which the Cari …
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Simon Gikandi & Ndirangu Wachanga: Ngugi
This collection of essays reflects on the life and work of Ngugi wa Thiong’o, who celebrated his 80th birthday in 2018. Drawing from a wide range of contributors, including writers, critics, publishe …
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Simon Gikandi & Ndirangu Wachanga: Ngugi
First-hand accounts of how Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s life and work have intersected, and the multiple forces that have converged to make him one of the greatest writers to come out of Africa in the twentie …
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Simon Gikandi: Oxford History of the Novel in English
Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization dive …
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Simon Gikandi: Oxford History of the Novel in English
Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization dive …
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Simon Gikandi: Encyclopedia of African Literature
The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering crit …
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Simon Gikandi: Encyclopedia of African Literature
The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering crit …
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Simon Gikandi: Encyclopedia of African Literature
The most comprehensive reference work on African literature to date, this book covers all the key historical and cultural issues in the field. The Encyclopedia contains over 600 entries covering crit …
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€70.62
Simon Gikandi: Writing in Limbo
In Simon Gikandi’s view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernity-a relationship in which the Cari …
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Bhekizizwe Peterson & Khwezi Mkhize: Foundational African Writers
This collection explores the complexities of black existence, and intellectual and cultural life in the work and legacies of centenarian writers, Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Cyril Lincoln N …
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Jill Bradbury & Hugo Canham: Foundational African Writers
The essays in this collection were crafted in celebration of the centenaries, in 2019, of Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Cyril Lincoln Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele, all of whom were born in 1 …
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Ama Ata Aidoo & Athol Fugard: Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora
The power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. This volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series presents a reconstru …
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Ama Ata Aidoo & Athol Fugard: Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora
The power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. This volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series presents a reconstru …
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