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In the name of the mother : reflections on writers & empire / Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo.
Van Pelt Library PR9381.9.N45 I53 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-2025, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African literature--History and criticism.
- African literature.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 146 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Suffolk : James Currey, [2013]
- Summary:
- Alongside the impact of his early novels and plays, and his more recent memoirs, these essays give new insights into Ngugi's and other writers' responses to colonialism - there is new material here for students of literature, politics and culture.
- Notes:
- "These latest essays reflect Ngũgĩ 's continuing interests and enthusiasms ... [through] novels [that] address his lifelong concerns with the ways to independence, the meanings of colonialism and the takeover by neo-colonialism, and the functions of literature in political as well as literary terms."--Page 4 of cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1847010849
- 9781847010841
- OCLC:
- 841911375
- Publisher Number:
- 99963282079
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