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标题：Mirroring the Subtext: Postmodernism in Ngugi wa Thiongo's Wizard of the Crow:
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作者：OM Macharia
期刊名称：Journal of Language, Technology & Entrepreneurship in Africa
印刷版ISSN：1998-1279
出版年度：2007
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：67-74
DOI：10.4314/jolte.v1i1.41757
语种：English
出版社：African Journals Online
摘要：This reading of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow attempts to place the text in the postmodern writing tradition. We point out how surrealistic features are utilized to enhance the themes, style, and the author's conundrums. Ngugi has been accused of focusing on ideologies at the expense of creativity. Wizard of the Crow is, however, a purely artistic text where Ngugi's creativity is plausibly developed, without hindering his ideological expression. The fact that the text was originally written in Gikuyu helps the writer draw from the resource of traditional discourse, and arguably enable not only Gikuyu culture, but also their worldview and history negotiate for a global position in line with emerging postmodern imperatives. Journal of Language, Technology and Entrepreneurship in Africa Vol. 1 (1) 2007 pp. 67-74