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2007 Many Voices Resources

The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Biography of Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Articles available on Reserve at the Library:

Ngugi wa Thiong'o. 2006. For Peace, Justice, and Culture: The Intellectual in the Twenty-First Century. Profession: 33-39.

Updike, John. 2006. Extended Performance. New Yorker 82, no. 23: 74-78.

Articles about The River Between

Amoko, Apollo O. 2005. The resemblance of colonial mimicry: A revisionary reading of ngugi wa thiong'o's the river between. Research in African Literatures 36, : 34-50.

Bongmba, Elias. 2001. On love: Literary images of a phenomenology of love in ngugi wa thiong'o's the river between. Literature & Theology: An International Journal of Theory, Criticism and Culture 15, (4): 373-395.

Gordon, Natasha Maria. 2004. To write what cannot be written: Female circumcision in african and middle eastern literature. Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education 11, (1): 73-87.

Grobler, G. M. M. 1998. And the river runs on ...: Symbolism in two african novels. South African Journal of African Languages/Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif Vir Afrikatale 18, (3): 65-67.

James, Trevor. 2001. Theology of landscape and ngugi wa thiong'o's the river between; mapping the sacred: Religion, geography and postcolonial literatures; Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial literatures in english. In In (pp. 227-40) scott, jamie S. (ed. and introd.); simpson-housley, paul (ed.), mapping the sacred: Religion, geography and postcolonial literatures.amsterdam, netherlands: Rodopi, 2001. xxxiii, 486 pp.. (amsterdam, netherlands: Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial literatures in English48)., eds. Jamie S. Scott, Paul Simpson-Housley, 486. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

Karambiri, Sarah. 2003. Hybridity and mimicry in two novels: The river between and in search of april raintree; intercultural Journeys/Parcours interculturels. In In (pp. 83-96) dagenais, natasha (ed.); daxell, joanna (ed.); rimstead, roxanne (collaborator and preface), intercultural Journeys/Parcours interculturels.baldwin mills, QC: Topeda hill, 2003. xiv, 270 pp.., eds. Natasha Dagenais, Joanna Daxell and Roxanne Rimstead, 270. Baldwin Mills, QC: Topeda Hill.

Nicholls, Brendon. 2003. Clitoridectomy and gikuyu nationalism in ngugi wa thiong'o's the river between. Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing 25, (2): 40-55.

Raditlhalo, Sam. 2001. 'Kenyan sheroes': Women and nationalism in ngugi's novels. English Studies in Africa: A Journal of the Humanities 44, : 1-12.

Wise, Christopher. 1995. Messianic hallucinations and manichean realities: Ngugi wa thiong'o, christianity, and the third world novel. Christianity and Literature 45, (1): 31-51.

Other books by Ngugi wa Thiong'o available in CLIC. You can use the "search for books" box on the Library web site to find and order these books.

Bjorkman, Ingrid, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. 1989. Mother, sing for me : Ngugi and people's theatre in kenya. London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA: Zed Books.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o. 2006. Wizard of the crow. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books.

---. 1998. Penpoints, gunpoints, and dreams : Towards a critical theory of the arts and the state of africa. Clarendon lectures in english literature. Vol. 1996. Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press.

---. 1997. Writers in politics : A re-engagement with issues of literature & society. Studies in african literature. Rev. and enl. ed. Oxford:James Currey ; Nairobi; Portsmouth, NH: Eaep; Heinemann.

---. 1992. Moving the centre : The struggle for cultural freedoms. Studies in african literature. London; Portsmouth, N.H.: J. Currey; Heinemann.

---. 1989. Matigari. African writers series. Oxford: Heinemann.

---. 1987. Devil on the cross. African writers series. [Caitaani m~utharaba-in~i.]. London: Heinemann.

---. 1986. Decolonising the mind : The politics of language in african literature. London; Portsmouth, N.H.: J. Currey; Heinemann.

---. 1983. Barrel of a pen : Resistance to repression in neo-colonial kenya. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, of the Africa Research & Publications Project.

---. 1983. The black hermit. African writers series. Vol. 51. London: Heinemann.

---. 1981. Detained : A writer's prison diary. African writers series. Nairobi: Heinemann.

---. 1978. Petals of blood. 1st American ed. New York: Dutton.

---. 1975. Secret lives and other stories. New York: L. Hill.

---. 1972. Homecoming: Essays on african and caribbean literature, culture and politics. Studies in african literature. London: Heinemann.

---. 1969. Weep not, child. African/American library. New York: Collier Books.

---. 1967. A grain of wheat. London: Heinemann.

---. 1965. The river between. London: Heinemann.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Charles Cantalupo. 1995. The world of Ngugi wa thiong'o. 1st Africa World Press, Inc. ed. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, Inc.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Micere Githae Mugo. 1977. The trial of dedan kimathi. African writers series. Vol. 191. London: Heinemann.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Ngugi wa M~iri~i. 1982. I will marry when I want. African writers series. [Ngaahika ndeenda.]. Vol. 246. London ; Exter, N.M.: Heinemann.