Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Chronology; 1 Introduction: reading texts and contexts; 2 Narrative and nationalist desire: early short stories and The River Between; 3 Educating colonial subjects: the ""emergency stories"" and Weep Not, Child; 4 Representing decolonization: A Grain of Wheat; 5 The poetics of cultural production: the later short stories and Petals of Blood ; 6 Performance and power: the plays ; 7 The prisonhouse of culture: Detained and Devil on the Cross; 8 The work of art in exile: Matigari ; 9 Writing freedom: essays and criticism ; Conclusion
