Devil on the Cross

Devil on the Cross is 1980 Gikuyu language novel (orig. title Caitaani mũtharaba-Inĩ) by Kenya novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, which was later republished as part of the influential African Writers Series in 1982.^[1] The novel, though dealing with a diverse range of literary conventions and themes,^[2] focuses on politically challenging the role of international money and culture in Kenya.^[1]^[3]

References

1 2 Brittain, Victoria (1982-06-03). "Kenya's Dissident". London Review of Books. pp. 19–20. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
↑ Mputubwele, Makim M. "Book Review: Ngugi and African Postcolonial Narrative: The Novel as Oral Narrative in Multigenre Performance". MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 44 (2): 478–480. doi:10.1353/mfs.1998.0014. ISSN 1080-658X.
↑ Gichingiri, Ndigirigi, (1991-01-01). "Character Names and Types in Ngugi's Devil on the Cross". Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies. 19 (2-3).

Works by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Novels	Weep Not, Child (1964) The River Between (1965) A Grain of Wheat (1967) A Meeting in the Dark (1974) The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (1976) Petals of Blood (1977) Devil on the Cross (1980, 1982) Mother, Sing For Me (1986) Matigari ma Njiruungi (1986) Wizard of the Crow (2004, 2006)

Children's books	Njamba Nene and the Flying Bus (1986) Njamba Nene and the Cruel Chief (1988) Njamba Nene's Pistol (1990)

Plays	The Black Hermit (1963) This Time Tomorrow (1970) Ngaahika Ndeenda (1977)

Short stories	Secret Lives, and Other Stories (1976)

Essays	Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture, and Politics (1972) Writers in Politics: Essays (1981) Education for a National Culture (1981) Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-Colonial Kenya (1983) Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986) Writing against Neo-Colonialism (1986) Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom (1993) Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams: The Performance of Literature and Power in Post-Colonial Africa (1996)

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