Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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January, 2012
Cloth, 120 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15950-0
$22.50 / £15.50

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Related Subjects

• Literary Criticism and Theory
• Race and Ethnicity

Series

• Wellek Library Lectures

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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