Narrative Strategies and the Issue of Traditional Culture in Ngugi’s Early Novels
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Patrick McGee in Telling the Otherasserts that Chinua Achebe’sengagement in postcolonial writing aims “to undo the imperialism of themetaphor.” The deconstruction of imperialist metaphor, no doubt, servesto historicize, and thus to restore humanity to, the Africans that werereduced to an evil force in the European literature and historiography.Since ‘undoing metaphorical writing,’ after all, calls forth realist writ-ing, McGee is not very far from Kwame Anthony Appiah when the lat-ter claims that “the first generation of modern African novels” are “real-ist legitimations of nationalism.” These critics are correct in seeing anally of African nationalism within the postcolonial African novels of thefirst stage; yet their view that understands these African novels as a“realistic” or ‘rationalizing’ writing, this paper argues, is not extensiveenough to account for their narrative complexity. Appiah also assertsthat the early African fictions “authorize a ‘return to traditions’ while atthe same time recognizing the demands of a Weberian rationalizedmodernity.” Despite its insightful mention of the African dilemmabetween tradition and modernity, Appiah’s thesis is too universalizing todo justice to the diverse and complex political agendas of the first-gen-eration African writers.This paper argues that the first-generation African writers did employthe strategy of mythologizing (inclusive of both retelling and creatingmyths) as well as that of demythologizing in their early narratives. Thispaper investigates the ways the two postcolonial narrative strategies are
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