Ngugi Wa Thiongo
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong 'o 's Visions of Africa Author(s): Christine Loflin Source: Research in African Literatures, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Winter, 1995), pp. 76-93 Published by: Indiana University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3820228 Accessed: 22/06/2010 13:31
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Ngugi wa Thiong 'o 's Visions of Africa
Christine Loflin
I was living in a village and also in a colonial situation. Nguigi,Homecoming(48)
Landscape as an aspectof fiction has tendedto be underrated:less interestingthannarrative, rhetoric,or tropology.Yet throughlandscape the authorcreates the horizons of the novel, establishingit in a historical(or an ahistorical)space. The landscapeis not merelythe settingof the story:it is a shifting, expanding
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Ngugi wa Thiong 'o 's Visions of Africa
Christine Loflin
I was living in a village and also in a colonial situation. Nguigi,Homecoming(48)
Landscape as an aspectof fiction has tendedto be underrated:less interestingthannarrative, rhetoric,or tropology.Yet throughlandscape the authorcreates the horizons of the novel, establishingit in a historical(or an ahistorical)space. The landscapeis not merelythe settingof the story:it is a shifting, expanding
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