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Birth of a dream weaver : a writer's awakening / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-2025, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-2025.
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo.
- Authors, Kenyan--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, Kenyan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (143 pages) : illustrations, photographs
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; London, [England] : The New Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Birth of a Dream Weaver charts the very beginnings of a writer's creative output. In this wonderful memoir, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o recounts the four years he spent in Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda--threshold years where he found his voice as a playwright, journalist, and novelist, just as Uganda, Kenya, Congo, and other countries were in the final throes of their independence struggles. James Ngugi, as he was known then, is haunted by the emergency period of the previous decade in Kenya, when his friends and relatives were killed during the Mau Mau Rebellion. He is also haunted by the experience of his childhood in a polygamous family and the brave break his mother made from his father's home. Accompanied by these ghosts, Ngugi begins to weave stories from the fibers of memory, history, and a shockingly vibrant and turbulent present. What unfolds in this moving and thought-provoking memoir is both the birth of one of the most important living writers--lauded for his "epic imagination" (Los Angeles Times)--and the death of one of the most violent episodes in global history.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- The wound in the heart
- A wounded land
- Reds and blacks
- Benzes, sneakers, frisbees, and flags
- Penpoints and fig trees
- Writing for the money of it
- Black dolls and black masks
- Transition and that letter from Paris
- Boxers and black hermits
- Pages, stages, spaces
- Coal, rubber, silver, gold, and new flags
- Working for the nation
- Notes and notebooks
- A hell of a paradise.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC:
- 1027167529
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