TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo,
TI  - Something torn and new: an African renaissance 
SN  - 0465009468
AV  - DT14 .N48 2009
U1  - 325.6 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - New York
PB  - BasicCivitas Books
KW  - Decolonization
KW  - Africa
KW  - Civilization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-148) and index; 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
N2  - 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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