@article{710533,
      recid = {710533},
      author = {Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo,},
      title = {Globalectics theory and the politics of knowing /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Columbia University Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 104 p.)},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {Ngugi wa Thiong'o summarizes and develops a cross-section  of the issues he has grappled with in his work, which  deploys a strategy of imagery, language, folklore, and  character to "decolonize the mind." Ngugi confronts the  politics of language in African writing; the problem of  linguistic imperialism and literature's ability to resist  it; the difficult balance between orality, or "orature,"  and writing, or "literature"; the tension between national  and world literature; and the role of the literary  curriculum in both reaffirming and undermining the  dominance of the Western canon. Throughout, he engages a  range of philosophers and theorists writing on power and  postcolonial creativity, including Hegel, Marx,  Levi-Strauss, and Aime Cesaire. Yet his explorations remain  grounded in his own experiences with literature (and  orature) and reworks the difficult dialectics of theory  into richly evocative prose.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/710533},
}