Globalectics [electronic resource] : theory and the politics of knowing / Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

9780231530750 electronic book
0231159501
0231530757
9780231159500

New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.

English

1 online resource (xi, 104 p.)

PN441 .N47 2012eb

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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