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Title:
Globalectics : theory and the politics of knowing
Author:
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-
ISBN:
9780231530750
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 104 pages).
Series:
The Wellek library lectures in critical theory

Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine.
Abstract:
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.
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