Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
January, 2012
Cloth, 120 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15950-0
$22.50
/ £15.50
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Riches of Poor Theory
1. The English Master and the Colonial Bondsman
2. The Education of the Colonial Bondsman
3. Globalectics: Reading the World in the Postcolonial
4. The Oral Native and the Writing Master: Orature
Notes
Index
Related Subjects
Series
About the Author
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine, and an award-winning Kenyan author currently writing primarily in the Gĩkũyũ language. The author of novels, plays, short stories, and essays, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is founder and editor of the online Gĩkũyũ-language journal, Mutiiri, and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent books include Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir; Decolonising the Mind; Something Torn and New; and the novels The River Between, Petals of Blood, and Wizard of the Crow, among others.
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