Peter Nazareth

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Peter Nazareth (b. April 27, 1940), is a critic and writer of fiction and drama. He was born in Uganda of Goan and Malaysian ancestry, and was educated at Makerere University (Uganda) and at the universities of London and Leeds in England.

He served as senior finance officer in Idi Amin's finance ministry until 1973 when he accepted a fellowship at Yale University (United States). He is currently professor of English and African-American World Studies at the University of Iowa (United States). Nazareth attracted major media attention for teaching that university's popular course "Elvis as Anthology," which explores the deep mythological roots of Elvis Presley's roles in popular culture.

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• Critical Essays on Ngugi wa Thiong'o, New York: Twayne Publishers, 2000
• The General is Up, Toronto: TSAR Publications, 1991
• Waiting for Amin: Two Decades of Ugandan Literature (1984)
• The Confessor (1981)
• Eccentric Ferns (1980)
• The Third World Writer: His Social Responsibility, Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1978
• Two Radio Plays, Kampala: East African Literaturej Bureau, 1976
• An African View of Literature (1974)
• The Institute (1974)
• Literature and Society in Modern Africa; Essays on Literature, Evanston, ILL,Northwestern *University Press, 1974
• In a Brown Mantle, Nairobi, East African Literature Bureau, 1972