Globalectics [electronic resource] : theory and the politics of knowing / Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-
2012
PN441 .N47 2012eb
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Title Globalectics [electronic resource] : theory and the politics of knowing / Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
Author Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-
ISBN 9780231530750 electronic book
0231159501
0231530757
9780231159500
Publication Details New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 104 p.)
Call Number PN441 .N47 2012eb
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine.
Available in Other Form Globalectics.
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Globalectics: reading the world in the postcolonial
The oral native and the writing master: orature, orality, and cyborality.

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