ON LOVE: LITERARY IMAGES OF A PHENOMENOLOGY OF LOVE IN NGUGI WA THIONG'O'S THE RIVER BETWEEN1

This essay suggests that the images of love in Ngugi's first written novel, The River Between can be read as a phenomenology of love. Such a phenomenology demonstrates that the love Waiyaki, the main character, has for Nyambura points to a concihatory path in resistance to colonialism It is arg...

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Main Author: Bongmba, Elias (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2001
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2001, Volume: 15, Issue: 4, Pages: 373-395
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