Globalectics : theory and the politics of knowing / Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-2025.

Series:

• Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine
• The Wellek library lectures in critical theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
• Literature.
• Knowledge, Theory of.
• Literature and globalization.
• African literature--Political aspects.
• Postcolonialism in literature.
• African literature.

Physical Description:

xi, 104 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]

Contents:

• Introduction: Riches of poor theory
• The English master and the colonial bondsman
• The education of the colonial bondsman
• Globalectics: reading the world in the postcolonial
• The oral native and the writing master: orature, orality, and cyborality.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780231159500
• 0231159501
• 9780231530750
• 0231530757

OCLC:

730413701