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- W1966544629 abstract "Although it can be argued that, in order to expose Christianity’s role as a tool to pacify the masses in capitalist exploitation, a revolutionary can appropriate and use Christianity to undermine itself, there is ambiguity as to how far this re-appropriation can go without running the danger of re-affirmation. After converting to Marxism, the literary Ngugi was consciously aware that his abstract economic analysis needed a credible vehicle of delivery to his peasant and worker audience’s communicative repertoire, but his conversion also meant that he should abandon the rather romantic indulgence in Gikuyu mysteries of imagination, and turn instead to Christian mythology and imagery that provided him the rich and effective vessel so evident in Devil on the Cross and Matigari. But how does Ngugi reconcile the strategic value of religion with basic Marxism that categorizes it as opium to desensitize people from the realization of their material situation, and thus rob them of the potential action for their salvation? And, once the revolutionary has used religion successfully to attain liberation, how does he dispose of it? In this study, I argue that Ngugi does not seem to have resolved this dilemma in his literary writing, and examine his use of Christianity and the tensions and contradictions that this creates in interpreting the body of his works as a unit." @default.
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- W1966544629 title "Ngugi and the World of Christianity: A Dialectic" @default.
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