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.

African literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Uganda. In 1977 he was imprisoned after his most controversial work, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want), produced in Nairobi, sharply criticized the injustices of Kenyan society and unequivocally championed the causes of ordinary citizens. Following his release, Ngugi decided to write only in his native Gikuyu, communicating with Kenyans in one of the many languages of

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Riches of Poor Theory; 1 The English Master and the Colonial Bondsman; 2 The Education of the Colonel Bondsman; 3 Globalectical Imagination: The World in the Postcolonial; 4 The Oral Native and the Writing Master: Orature, Orality, and Cyborality; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231530750

0231530757

OCLC:

818857080