Reading Nuruddin Farah: The individual, the novel & the idea of home

Reading Nuruddin Farah is the most exhaustive critical text dedicated to Nuruddin Farah to date. Moolla’s analysis is … remarkable for its originality and intellectual rigor. ― RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES

Seeing Farah’s work in the tradition of the bildungsroman, Moolla demonstrates how his fiction ‘displays a concern with the subject as individual operated on by the power of both the postcolonial state and tradition.’ Highly recommended. ― CHOICE

‘This work represents perhaps the most original and comprehensive study of Farah’s work to date.’ – — Simon S. Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Princeton University

‘… provides an insightful perspective on the concept of individualism, its philosophical genealogy, and its intimate connection to the emergence of the novel in Western Europe and subsequent expansion to its current status as a global genre.’ – — Olakunle George, Associate Professor, Brown University

‘To my mind, this is the first exhaustive work on Farah which locates his works within a known genre tradition, specifically that of the modern novel, and proceeds to argue that Farah’s novels represent the fundamental problematic of the individual representation through the form of the novel.’ – — James A. Ogude, Professor and Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria