Chronology 1. Introduction: reading texts and contexts 2. Narrative and nationalist desire: early short stories and The River Between 3. Educating colonial subjects: the 'Emergency' stories and Weep Not, Child 4. Representing decolonization: A Grain of Wheat 5. The poetics of cultural production: Petals of Blood 6. Performance and power: the plays 7. The prisonhouse of culture: Detained and Devil on the Cross 8. The work of art in exile: Matigari 9. Writing freedom: essays and criticism Conclusion.
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