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Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

By Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Book information

Publisher
James Currey (Boydell & Brewer)
Year
1986
ISBN
9781787443976, 1787443973
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
248 kB (253708 bytes)
Edition
ePub
Pages
128\0
Topic
Literature
Time added
2021-11-17 02:21:35

Description

Decolonising the Mind is a collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity. The book, which advocates for linguistic decolonization, is one of Ngũgĩ’s best-known and most-cited non-fiction publications, helping to cement him as a pre-eminent voice theorizing the “language debate” in post-colonial studies. Ngũgĩ describes the 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 teaching of literature…” Decolonising the Mind is split into four essays: “The Language of African Literature,” “The Language of African Theatre,” “The Language of African Fiction,” and “The Quest for Relevance.”

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