Something Torn and New - An African Renaissance

Informationen zum Autor Ngugi wa Thiong'o , currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine, was born in Kenya in 1938. After penning Petals of Blood in 1977, a novel sharply critical of life in neo-colonial Kenya, he was arrested and imprisoned without charge for a year. Vanity Fair has called him "the scourge of African dictators and warlords" and the San Diego Union-Tribune praised him as "a writer whose output feels essential for those hoping to understand contemporary Africa." He lives in Irvine, California. Klappentext One of Africa's greatest writers ("San Francisco Chronicle") makes an impassioned plea for the resurrection of African language--and African culture itself. Zusammenfassung "One of Africa's greatest writers" (San Francisco Chronicle) makes an impassioned plea for the resurrection of African language--and African culture itself

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ngugi, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ngugi wa o, Thiong&apos, Ngugi Thiong'o, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Ngugi wa Thiong'o
• Verlag: Basic Books Inc.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 05.03.2009
• EAN: 9780465009466
• ISBN: 978-0-465-00946-6
• Seiten: 176
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 215 mm x 8 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)