@article{858760,
      note = {"First published in Gikuyu by Heinemann Educational Books  (East Africa) Ltd 1980. English-language edition translated  by the author published in Great Britain by Heinemann  Educational Publishers 1982. This edition with an  introduction by Namwali Serpell published in Penguin Books  2017"--Title page verso.},
      author = {Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/858760},
      title = {Devil on the cross /},
      abstract = {"The great Kenyan writer and Nobel Prize nominee Ngũgĩ  wa Thiongʼo's powerful fictional critique of capitalism  One of the cornerstones of Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo's fame,  Devil on the Cross was written in secret, on toilet paper,  while Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo was in prison. It tells the  tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman who moves from a  rural Kenyan town to the capital, Nairobi, only to be  exploited by her boss and later by a corrupt businessman.  As she struggles to survive, Wariinga begins to realize  that her problems are only symptoms of a larger societal  malaise and that much of the misfortune stems from the  Western, capitalist influences on her country. An  impassioned cry for a Kenya free of dictatorship and for  African writers to work in their own local dialects, Devil  on the Cross has had a profound influence on Africa and on  post-colonial African literature"--},
      recid = {858760},
      pages = {xxv, 291 pages ;},
}