Description: Further DetailsTitle: Decolonising the MindCondition: NewEAN: 9780852555019ISBN: 9780852555019Publisher: James CurreyFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/26/1986Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Ngugi wa Thiong'oLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Politics of Language in African LiteratureISBN-10: 0852555016Description: A collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity, that advocates for linguistic decolonization.'The language of literature', Ngũgĩ writes, 'cannot be discussed meaningfully outside the context of those social forces which have made it both an issue demanding our attention, and a problem calling for a resolution.' First published in 1986, Decolonising the Mind is one of Ngũgĩ's best-known and most-cited non-fiction publications, helping to cement him as a pre-eminent voice theorizing the 'language debate' in postcolonial studies. Ngũgĩ wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu. He describes the book as 'a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of my practice in fiction, theatre, criticism, and in teaching of literature...'. Split into four essays - 'The Language of African Literature', 'The Language of African Theatre', 'The Language of African Fiction', and 'The Quest for Relevance' - the book offers an anti-imperialist perspective on the destiny of Africa and the role of languages in combatting and perpetrating imperialism and neo-colonialism in African nations. East Africa [Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda]: EAEPCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Literary Criticism, Language & ReferenceItem Weight: 167gRelease Year: 1986 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Decolonising the Mind
Title: Decolonising the Mind
EAN: 9780852555019
ISBN: 9780852555019
Release Date: 06/26/1986
Release Year: 1986
Subtitle: The Politics of Language in African Literature
ISBN-10: 0852555016
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Language & Reference
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Decolonising the Mind : the Politics of Language in African Literature
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Item Height: 0.3 in
Subject: American / General, Political, African, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Publication Year: 1986
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 5.9 Oz
Author: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Item Length: 8.7 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Political Science
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
