Something torn and new an African renaissance

Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo 1938- (Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780786744190 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0786744197 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780465009466
ISBN: 0465009468
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (xi, 162 p.)
Publisher: New York : BasicCivitas Books, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-148) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.