Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
Pius Ngandu Nkashama is mostly known as a literary critic and theorist. But he is also an established novelist, poet and playwright. This essay attempts to show that both his critical work and his creative work share a common dynamic. It shows how, for Pius Ngandu, literary and aesthetic practice is not only a way of life, an existential experience from which he draws the energy to overcome despair and human mediocrity, but it is also a way of participating in the African struggle for freedom and for the conquest of a history that has been confiscated by dictators.
Recommended Citation
Kavwahirehi, Kasereka
(2007)
"Théorie et pratique de l’écriture chez Pius Ngandu Nkashama,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 68:
No.
1, Article 11.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol68/iss1/11
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