Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (266 pages)
ISBN:
9781787443853
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178744385X
Inhalt:
Frontcover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Photographic Section; Introduction: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: Reflections on His Life of Writing; Ngũgĩ at Work; Part I Serenades & Beginnings; 1 Hyperbolic Praise Poetry for Ngũgĩ 80 ... In Imitation of African Orature; 2 A Song at Dawn (for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o); 3 Ngũgĩ in Eritrea; 4 Up From Makerere: On the Publication of Weep Not, Child; 5 Encountering Ngũgĩ at Leeds: An Interview with Peter Nazareth; 6 The Book that Made Me: On Weep Not, Chil; 7 Note from a Literary Son; 8 What is in a Name?; 9 In Exile: Between Britain & Kenya.
Inhalt:
Part II Memories, Recollections & Tributes10 Remembering Early Conversations with Ngũgĩ; 11 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o at 80: Pongezi (Congratulations!); 12 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o at 80: Inspiring Encounters; 13 Ngũgĩ in the 1970s at the University of Nairobi; 14 'Professor, You are in Ngũgĩ's Book'; 15 Mũraata, Mũrutani, na Mũthikĩrĩria (Friend, Teacher & Listener); 16 Fear & Trepidation in Asmara: Meeting Ngũgĩ; 17 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: A True Story; 18 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: Tribute on His 80th Birthday; Part III Working with Ngũgĩ; 19 Ngũgĩ & the Decolonization of Publishing.
Inhalt:
20 The Turning Point: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o & His Kenyan Publisher21 Working with Ngũgĩ; 22 Recollections of Mũtiiri; Part IV The Writer, the Critic & the World; 23 Bricklayer & Architect of a World to Come; 24 Revisioning Goethe's Idea of 'World Literature' [Commendation Address On the Awarding of the Dr. Phil. h.c. (Honorary Doctor of Letters) to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, University of Bayreuth, Germany, April 2014]; 25 Globalectics: Beyond Postcoloniality, & Engaging the Caribbean; 26 Ngũgĩ & the Quest for a Linguistic Paradigm Shift: Some Reflections.
Inhalt:
27 Autobiographical Prototypes in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Early Fiction & Drama28 Homecoming: The Idea of Return in the Works of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o; 29 Gũcookia Rũĩ Mũkaro; 30 Muthoni's Afterlives; Part V The Other Ngũgĩ; 31 Kwa Grant Kamenju: Hotuba ya Kuipokea Digrii ya Heshima ya Uzamifu Kutoka Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam; 32 Wasomi, Lugha za Ulaya na za Kiafrika: Kati ya Kuweza na Kuwezwa; 33 Asia in My Life; 34 Ndaĩ ya Wendo (A Riddle of Love); Appendixes; A Review of Wizard of the Crow: Ngũgĩ's Homecoming Gift to Kenyans; B Directing the River Back to its Course; C For Grant Kamenju.
Inhalt:
D Intellectuals, European & African Languages: Between Enslavement & EmpowermentE A Riddle of Love; References; Bibliography of Ngũgĩ's Primary Works; Works Cited; Notes on Contributors; Index.
Inhalt:
First-hand accounts of how Ngugi's life and work have intersected, and the multiple forces that have converged to make him one of the greatest writers to come out of Africa in the twentieth century
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781847012142
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gikandi, Simon Ngugi : Reflections on His Life of Writing Melton : Boydell & Brewer Ltd, ©2018 ISBN 9781847012142
Sprache:
Englisch
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