The following questions are for Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s “A Meeting in the Dark.” Please select one and draft a response of approximately one page that uses quoted evidence from the short story. Due by 3 pm Wed., Dec. 7.
1. Marxist interpretation: discuss how both religion and education function as a form of class warfare on the integrity of the Kikuyu tribe in this short story.
2. Freudian interpretation: describe how Freud’s Oedipus complex illuminates the hostility or jealousy towards maternal and reproductive capacities of women in “A Meeting in the Dark.”
3. Feminist interpretation: describe how misogyny destroys tribal identity.
