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Ngugi's Critical Consciousness Turn in Devil on the Cross

Xuan Wang
Vol.3, No.3, pp.135-139, 2024 DOI: 10.62051/ijgem.v3n3.16 July 28, 2024
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Abstract: Ngugi wa Tiango's novel Devil on the Cross employs a variety of oral elements of Kikuyu tradition as anti-colonising linguistic strategies. This paper intends to explain Ngugi's subversion of the traditional Western narrative discourse by the narrative mode constructed in national discourse from the anti-colonising linguistic strategy that the novel has. It examines the critical consciousness behind Ngugi's anti-colonial linguistic strategy, explores the realistic concern in the novel's historical context, and reveals the anti-colonial consciousness and critical consciousness turn in the novel's linguistic strategy.
Keywords: Devil on the Cross, Ngugi, Critical consciousness turn
APA Citation: Xuan Wang (2024). Ngugi's Critical Consciousness Turn in Devil on the Cross. International Journal of Global Economics and Management, 3(3), 135-139. https://doi.org/10.62051/ijgem.v3n3.16

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