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Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o,Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780852555019
Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.
Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9966466843
Author : Chinweizu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015012824135
Author : Koenraad Elst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Hindus
ISBN : 9798129107465
Author : Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848139527
'A landmark in the process of decolonizing imperial Western knowledge.' Walter Mignolo, Duke University To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being. Now in its eagerly awaited second edition, this bestselling book has been substantially revised, with new case-studies and examples and important additions on new indigenous literature, the role of research in indigenous struggles for social justice, which brings this essential volume urgently up-to-date.
Author : Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X002213121
In this collection Ngugi is concerned with moving the centre in two senses - between nations and within nations - in order to contribute to the freeing of world cultures from the restrictive walls of nationalism, class, race and gender. Between nations the need is to move the centre from its assumed location in the West to a multiplicity of spheres in all the cultures of the world. Within nations the move should be away from all minority class establishments to the real creative centre among working people in conditions of racial, religious and gender equality. -- Back cover.
Author : Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 043591751X
Author : Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231530750
A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Uganda. In 1977 he was imprisoned after his most controversial work, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want), produced in Nairobi, sharply criticized the injustices of Kenyan society and unequivocally championed the causes of ordinary citizens. Following his release, Ngugi decided to write only in his native Gikuyu, communicating with Kenyans in one of the many languages of their daily lives, and today he is known as one of the most outspoken intellectuals working in postcolonial theory and the global postcolonial movement. In this volume, 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, Lévi-Strauss, and Aimé Césaire. Yet his explorations remain grounded in his own experiences with literature (and orature) and reworks the difficult dialectics of theory into richly evocative prose.
Author : Rebecca Kiddle,Moana Jackson,Bianca Elkington,Ocean Ripeka Mercier,Michael Ross,Jennie Smeaton,Amanda Thomas
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781988545752
Decolonisation is a term that alarms some, and gives hope to others. It is an uncomfortable and often bewildering concept for many New Zealanders. This book seeks to demystify decolonisation using illuminating, real-life examples. By exploring the impact of colonisation on Māori and non-Māori alike, Imagining Decolonisation presents a transformative vision of a country that is fairer for all.
Author : Marquard Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 6094473434
Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o,Micere Githae Mugo
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781478611707
Kenyan-born novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong’o and his collaborator, Micere Githae Mugo, have built a powerful and challenging play out of the circumstances surrounding the 1956 trial of Dedan Kimathi, the celebrated Kenyan hero who led the Mau Mau rebellion against the British colonial regime in Kenya and was eventually hanged. A highly controversial character, Kimathi’s life has been subject to intense propaganda by both the British government, who saw him as a vicious terrorist, and Kenyan nationalists, who viewed him as a man of great courage and commitment. Writing in the 1970s, the playwrights’ response to colonialist writings about the Mau Mau movement in The Trial of Dedan Kimathi is to sing the praises of the deeds of this hero of the resistance who refused to surrender to British imperialism. It is not a reproduction of the farcical “trial” at Nyeri. Rather, according to the preface, it is “an imaginative recreation and interpretation of the collective will of the Kenyan peasants and workers in their refusal to break under sixty years of colonial torture and ruthless oppression by the British ruling classes and their continued determination to resist exploitation,oppression and new forms of enslavement.”
Author : Frank Heinlein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135284343
This book is an in-depth study of the importnace of the Empire-Commonwealth in the two decades after WWII for Britain's self-image as a great power. By studying a wide range of debates on general and specific imperial problems, the book highlights the "official mind" of decolonization - and of late imperialism.
Author : Jonathan Jansen
Publisher : Wits University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781776144709
Shortly after the giant bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town, student protestors called for the decolonisation of universities. It was a word hardly heard in South Africa’s struggle lexicon and many asked: What exactly is decolonisation? This edited volume brings together the best minds in curriculum theory to address this important question. In the process, several critical questions are raised: Is decolonisation simply a slogan for addressing other pressing concerns on campuses and in society? What is the colonial legacy with respect to curriculum and can it be undone? How is the project of curriculum decolonisation similar to or different from the quest for postcolonial knowledge, indigenous knowledge or a critical theory of knowledge? What does decolonisation mean in a digital age where relationships between knowledge and power are shifting? The book combines strong conceptual analyses with novel case studies of attempts to ‘do decolonisation’ in settings as diverse as South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania and Mauritius. Such a comparative perspective enables reasonable judgements to be made about the prospects for institutional take-up within the curriculum of century-old universities.
Author : Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472053681
Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o,Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780852555415
This book reflects many of the concerns found in Decolonising the Mind and Moving the Centre.