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Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance

Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance - Paperback

by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ngugi Wa Thiong'oPublish date:2009-02-24Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Civitas Book PublisherISBN-13:9780465009466ISBN-10:465009468UPC:9780465009466Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African, Ethnic Studies, Black Studies (Global)Book Topic:AmericanSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC5QXTG1PZ
Novelist Ngugi 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. In Something Torn and New, 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, Something Torn and New is a cri de coeur to save Africa's cultural future.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Civitas Book PublisherISBN-13:9780465009466ISBN-10:465009468UPC:9780465009466Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African, Ethnic Studies, Black Studies (Global)Book Topic:AmericanSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC5QXTG1PZ
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine, was born in Kenya in 1938. After penning Petals of Blood in 1977, a novel sharply critical of life in neo-colonial Kenya, he was arrested and imprisoned without charge for a year. Vanity Fair has called him "the scourge of African dictators and warlords" and the San Diego Union-Tribune praised him as "a writer whose output feels essential for those hoping to understand contemporary Africa." He lives in Irvine, California.
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