DISCURSIVE ECOLOGY OF THE SACRED: A POSTCOLONIAL STUDY OF NGUGI WA THIONGO’S ‘MUGUMO’
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African Litertature, Identity, Language, Mugumo, Ngugi wa Thiongo,Abstract
This paper has assessed a discursive ecology of cultural and spiritual experiences in Ngugi wa Thiongo’s ‘Mugumo’ using postcolonialism and critical sylistics as its theoretical lens. It has critically explored the connection between man and the spiritual realm through spatial-temporal coexistence of flora and fauna. Man, ultimately resorts to the intervention of a spiritual being in resolving social tragedies as exemplified in the life of Mukami who has been chastised by society for her inability to give birth to a child in the first three years of her marriage. Her encounter with the Mugumo tree that serves as an embodiment of spiritual liberation of the Gikuyu people assuages her immediate travails.
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