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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

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Description:Ngugi describes this 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 the teaching of literature.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Europe stole art treasures from Africa to decorate their houses and museums; in the twentieth century Europe is stealing the treasures of the mind to enrich their languages and cultures...."ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceA StatementIntroduction : Towards the Universal Language of Struggle 1. The Language of African Literature2. The Language of African Theatre3. The Language of African Fiction4. The Quest for RelevanceIndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. To get started finding Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 114

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: ‎ James Currey Ltd / Heinemann

Release: 2011

ISBN: 9966466843

Description: Ngugi describes this 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 the teaching of literature.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Europe stole art treasures from Africa to decorate their houses and museums; in the twentieth century Europe is stealing the treasures of the mind to enrich their languages and cultures...."ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceA StatementIntroduction : Towards the Universal Language of Struggle 1. The Language of African Literature2. The Language of African Theatre3. The Language of African Fiction4. The Quest for RelevanceIndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. To get started finding Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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