Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance Book

Novelist Ngugi wa Thiongâ??o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. In Something Torn and New, Ngugi explores Africaâ??s historical, economic, and cultural fragmentation by slavery, colonialism, and globalization. Throughout this tragic history, a constant and irrepressible force was Europhonism: the replacement of native names, languages, and identities with European ones. The result was the dismemberment of African memory.Seeking to remember language in order to revitalize it, Ngugiâ??s quest is for wholeness. Wide-ranging, erudite, and hopeful, Something Torn and New is a cri de coeur to save Africaâ??s cultural future.Read More

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  • 0465009468
  • 9780465009466
  • Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
  • 5 March 2009
  • Basic Civitas Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 176
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