Globaletics :
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Globaletics : theory and the politics of knowing / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o - Nueva York : Columbia University Press, 2014 - XI, 104 p. ; 22 cm. - The Wellek library lectures in critical theory .
In this volume, Ngũgĩ 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.” Ngũgĩ 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.
978-0-231-15951-7
Crítica literaria
Teoría del conocimiento
Literatura afro
Colonialismo
82.09
Globaletics : theory and the politics of knowing / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o - Nueva York : Columbia University Press, 2014 - XI, 104 p. ; 22 cm. - The Wellek library lectures in critical theory .
In this volume, Ngũgĩ 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.” Ngũgĩ 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.
978-0-231-15951-7
Crítica literaria
Teoría del conocimiento
Literatura afro
Colonialismo
82.09