Something torn and new : an African renaissance / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

By:

Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0465009468
9780465009466

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

325.6 22

LOC classification:

DT14 .N48 2009

Contents:

Dismembering practices : planting European memory in America -- Re-membering visions -- Memory, restoration, and African renaissance -- From color to social consciousness : South Africa in the black imagination.

Summary: Novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. Here, Ngugi explores Africa's historical, economic, and cultural fragmentation by slavery, colonialism, and globalization. Throughout this tragic history, a constant and irrepressible force was Europhonism: the replacement of native names, languages, and identities with European ones. The result was the dismemberment of African memory. Seeking to remember language in order to revitalize it, Ngugi's quest is for wholeness. Wide-ranging, erudite, and hopeful, this book is a cri de coeur to save Africa's cultural future.--From publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-148) and index.

Novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. Here, Ngugi explores Africa's historical, economic, and cultural fragmentation by slavery, colonialism, and globalization. Throughout this tragic history, a constant and irrepressible force was Europhonism: the replacement of native names, languages, and identities with European ones. The result was the dismemberment of African memory. Seeking to remember language in order to revitalize it, Ngugi's quest is for wholeness. Wide-ranging, erudite, and hopeful, this book is a cri de coeur to save Africa's cultural future.--From publisher description.

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