Birth of a dream weaver : a writer's awakening / Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo.
2016
PR9381.9.N45 Z46 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
Birth of a dream weaver : a writer's awakening / Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo.
ISBN
9781620972403 (hardcover)
1620972409 (hardcover)
9781846559891
1846559898
9781784701307
1784701300
1620972409 (hardcover)
9781846559891
1846559898
9781784701307
1784701300
Published
New York : The New Press, [2016]
Language
English
Description
238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Call Number
PR9381.9.N45 Z46 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
828/.91403 B
Summary
"Birth of a Dream Weaver charts the very beginnings of a writers creative output. In this wonderful memoir, internationally renowned Kenyan writer and author of the now-classic Wizard and the Crow, 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, "--NoveList.
"Birth of a Dream Weaver charts the very beginnings of a writer's creative output. In this wonderful memoir, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o recounts the four years he spent at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda--threshold years during which he found his voice as a journalist, short story writer, playwright, and novelist just as colonial empires were crumbling and new nations were being born--under the shadow of the rivalries, intrigues, and assassinations of the Cold War. Haunted by the memories of the carnage and mass incarceration carried out by the British colonial-settler state in his native Kenya but inspired by the titanic struggle against it, Ngũgĩ, then known as James 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 simultaneously the birth of one of the most important living writers--lauded for his "epic imagination" (Los Angeles Times)--the death of one of the most violent episodes in global history, and the emergence of new histories and nations with uncertain futures."--Publisher's description.
"Birth of a Dream Weaver charts the very beginnings of a writer's creative output. In this wonderful memoir, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o recounts the four years he spent at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda--threshold years during which he found his voice as a journalist, short story writer, playwright, and novelist just as colonial empires were crumbling and new nations were being born--under the shadow of the rivalries, intrigues, and assassinations of the Cold War. Haunted by the memories of the carnage and mass incarceration carried out by the British colonial-settler state in his native Kenya but inspired by the titanic struggle against it, Ngũgĩ, then known as James 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 simultaneously the birth of one of the most important living writers--lauded for his "epic imagination" (Los Angeles Times)--the death of one of the most violent episodes in global history, and the emergence of new histories and nations with uncertain futures."--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-235).
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Table of 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.
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.