Abstract
My paper offers a reading of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Matigari (1989) and investigates the use of the home space as a site of protest. It is the home space that Matigari struggles to retrieve in the novel. The journeys undertaken by Matigari are metaphorically interwoven with his journeys within-the journeys in the realm of memory. In Matigari (1989), Matigari’s search for a home space in the aftermath of the independence of an anonymous nation (identified as Kenya) culminates in the grim discovery of the neocolonial oppression that marks the collapse of the nationalist dreams. Hence, my main aim in this paper is to analyse the journeys undertaken by the characters in the novel, and in doing so, I will also try to explain the spatial politics that define these journeys.
Highlights
My paper offers a reading of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Matigari (1989) and investigates the use of the home space as a site of protest
The politics of the home space allegorises the formation of the nation
The colonial politics of the domestic space is revived in the neocolonial context
Summary
My paper offers a reading of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Matigari (1989) and investigates the use of the home space as a site of protest. Matigari’s journey in search of the home space subverts the colonial ethics of the domestic space as a stable, clean and tabular entity Matigari travels within an anonymous nation ( Kenya) in search of the indigenous home space but discovers the marks of woe instead of the promised land of peace and harmony.
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