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Homecoming: essays on African and Caribbean literature, culture and politics / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (James Ngugi).
LIBRA PR9340.5 .N4 1973
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-2025.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African literature (English)--History and criticism.
- African literature (English).
- Caribbean literature (English)--History and criticism.
- Caribbean literature (English).
- West Indian literature (English)--History and criticism.
- West Indian literature (English).
- Kenya--Politics and government.
- Kenya.
- Politics and government.
- Caribbean Area--Civilization.
- Caribbean Area.
- Civilization.
- West Indies--Civilization.
- West Indies.
- Africa--Civilization.
- Africa.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 155 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Lawrence Hill and Company, 1973.
- Contents:
- Part One: On Culture. Towards a National Culture; Kenya: The Two Rifts; Mau Mau: Violence, and Culture; Church, Culture and Politics
- Part Two: Writers in Africa. The Writer and His Past; The Writer in a Changing Society; Chinua Achebe: A Man of the People; Wole Soyinka, T.M. Aluko and the Satiric Voice; Okot p'Bitek and Writing in East Africa
- Part Three: Writers from the Caribbean. A Kind of Homecoming; What is my Colour, What is my Race?; George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin; George Lamming and the Colonial Situation.
- Notes:
- "With an Introduction by John Henrik Clark."
- "Published in the United States by permission of Heinemann Educational Books, April 1973 Lawrence Hill & Company, Publishers, Inc."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has 3" x 5" card with two quotes from text written in ms. laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0882080350
- 0882080369
- OCLC:
- 62456935
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