Abstract:
The nexus between literature
and politics, and by extension, economics, has been widely acknowledged. The
writer and his work are said to share a relationship that is rooted in the
vicissitudes of life in the society, and this is represented in different
prisms of understanding and allegiance. This paper attempts a post-colonial
rereading of Meja Mwangi’s urban trilogy, namely Going Down River Road, Kill Me
Quick and The Cockcroach Dance. The paper aggregates models of reading that
goes beyond mere exhorbitation of discourse. Post colonial discourse should not
only counter the misrepresentations of Africa by colonial discourse, it must
show the way and the means of getting out of their present condition. The paper
therefore deploys the methodological approach by Rodney, Aimee Ceasaire and
Ngugi to demonstrate how literature is inseparable from the political and
economic foundations of the society in which it is produced.
DOI: www.doi.org/10.36349/tjllc.2024.v03i02.039
author/Dauda Saidu, PhD
journal/Tasambo JLLC 3(2) | September 2024 |
