Addressing a neglected dimension in postcolonial scholarship, Oliver Lovesey examines the figure of the postcolonial intellectual as repeatedly evoked by the fabled troika of Said, Spivak, and Bhabha and by members of the pan-African diaspora such as Cabral, Fanon, and James. Lo…
1. The postcolonial intellectual -- 2. The decolonization of James Ngugi : early journalism -- 3. Diasporic Pan-Africanism : the Caribbean connection -- 4. Ngugi's "aesthetics of decolonization" : return to the source -- 5. Postcolonial intellectual self-fashioning -- 6. The glo…
Addressing a neglected dimension in postcolonial scholarship, the author examines the figure of the postcolonial intellectual as repeatedly evoked by the fabled troika of Said, Spivak, and Bhabha and by members of the pan-African diaspora such as Cabral, Fanon, and James
Oliver Lovesey examines the conundrum of the postcolonial intellectual, a central yet critically overlooked figure in the postcolonial project. He focuses on Ngugi wa Thiong'o within his cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts, primarily with respect to his non-fictional…