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Globalectics
Ngugi Wa Thiong'O
In this volume, Ngugi wa Thiong'o summarizes and develops a cross-section of the issues he has grappled with in his work, which uses a combination of imagery, language, folklore, and character to "decolonize the mind." He also confronts the politics of language in African writing; the problem of linguistic imperialism and literature's ability to resist it; the difficult balance between orality, or "orature," and writing, or "literature"; the tension between national and world literature; and the role of the literary curriculum in both reaffirming and undermining the dominance of the Western canon. Throughout, he engages a range of philosophers and theorists writing on power and postcolonial creativity, including Hegel, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and Aime Cesaire. Yet his explorations remain grounded in his own experiences with literature (and orature) and rework the difficult dialectics of theory into richly evocative prose.
120 pages
| Media | Boeken Book |
| Vrijgegeven | 20 mei 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231159517 |
| Uitgevers | Columbia University Press |
| Pagina's | 120 |
| Afmetingen | 213 × 146 × 7 mm · 250 g (Gewicht (geschat)) |
| Taal en grammatica | Engels |
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