| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 104 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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The Wellek library lectures in critical theory
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Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Riches of poor theory -- The English master and the colonial bondsman -- The education of the colonial bondsman -- Globalectics imagination: the world in the postcolonial -- The oral native and the writing master: orature, orality, and cyborality. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Literature. |
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Knowledge, Theory of. |
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Literature and globalization.
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Literature and globalization. |
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African literature -- Political aspects.
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African literature -- Political aspects. |
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African literature. |
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938- Globalectics. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012 9780231159500 (DLC) 2011025562 (OCoLC)730413701 |
| ISBN |
9780231530750 (electronic book) |
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0231530757 (electronic book) |
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0231159501 |
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9780231159500 |
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