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  1. Ngugi Wa Thiong'O: The Making of a Rebel : A Source Book in Kenyan Literature and Resistance (Documentary Research in African Written Literature 1) by Carol Sicherman, 1990-10
  2. Ngugi wa Thiong'o: L'homme et l'euvre (Collection Approches) (French Edition) by Jacqueline Bardolph, 1991
  3. The Novel As Transformation Myth: A Study of the Novels of Mongo Beti and Ngugi Wa Thiong'O (Foreign and Comparative Studies Program African Series) by Kandioura Drame, 1990-04
  4. Ngugi Wa Thiong'O by Clifford B. Robson, 1980-08
  5. Critical Essays on Ngugi Wa Thiong O: Ngugi wa Thiong'o ( b. 1938) (Critical Essays on American Literature) by Peter Nazareth, 2000-11-27
  6. Resistance And Consciousness In Kenya And South Africa: Subalternity And Representation In The Novels Of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o And Alex La Guma by Anders Breidlid, 2002-10
  7. World Authors Series: Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Twayne's World Authors Series) by Oliver Lovesey, 2000-01-12
  8. Ngugi Wa Thiongo: An Anthology of Recent Criticism (New Orientations)
  9. Matigari: Ngugi wa Thiongo ; (African writers series) by Ngugi wa Thiongo, 1990
  10. Critical Perspectives on Ngugi Wa Thiong'O
  11. The Writer As Activist: South Asian Perspectives on Ngugi Wa Thiong'O
  12. Ngugi wa Thiong'o: An Exploration of His Writings (Studies in African Literature Series) by Michael Okenimkpe, David Cook, 1997-10-24
  13. Politics as Fiction: Novels of Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Creative new literatures series) by Harish Narang, 1998-01
  14. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Studies in African Literature Series) by Ngugi Wa Thiongo, 1986-07-18

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Matigari by Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a fascinating story. Since from the very beginning, Matigari captures readers with foreshadowing, uses of similes, and many techniques that European writers use. However, the structure is different from a novel written in the European tradition. The language is kept rather simple, as someone would speak when telling a story. There are many repetitive words and phrases in Matigari and readers should not underestimate the significant value of every one of them. ...
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This book is a must read for anyone concerned or struggling with the equality of others or themselves. It is a must read for anyone who thinks they know why minorities are the way they are. It is a must read for disentangling nearly 600 years of global imperialism. Ngugi's book is also a must read for understanding what is happening today, to all of us.This book is compact yet dense with insight. The chapters inside this book examine the need for "re-centering" culture and establishing cultur...
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26. Ngugi Wa Thiongo: Politics Of The Performance Space
The Politics of the Performance Space. Ngøgð wa Thiong o. Primary Reading Ngøgð wa Thiong’o Penpoints Gunpoints and Dreams.
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The Politics of the Performance Space Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University The course examines the performance space as a site of struggle of the various physical, social and psychic forces in society. The course singles out the colonial and postcolonial performance space - be it the street, the home, the shrine, the museum, the archeological site, the burial ground, the prison, the national theater,or even the national state - as a site of intense political theater. In particular, the course looks at the rise of popular theater movements in Africa in the light of the politics of performance space. The course is built around texts where performance and space are of particular significance in the development of the conflict
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Acclaimed novelist, playwright, and critic, Ngugi wa Thiong'o is Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies at New York University. He holds a B.A. (honors) from Makerere University College, 1964, and has also studied at Leeds University in England; L.H.D. 1994 Albright. Ngugi wa Thiongo is an internationally known author of Kenyan birth who has been a steadfast voice and activist on behalf of the freedom of the writer in national society. His presence at the Kansas conference on democracy in Africa will greatly enhance the level of discussion, thought, and understanding of the issues. His research interests are African and Caribbean literatures, theater, film; cultural and political theory. In his recent book Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa

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When the police figured out that Matigari lived only in Ngugi's novel, they seized all known copies of the book and condemned Matigari to a different kind of prison. Fortunately, the writer, who had already spent a year in a Kenyan jail, was far away and escaped imprisonment. Ngugi's novel resonated so deeply with average Kenyans partly because he wrote in his native Kikuyu, a switch he had made during 1978, in prison, when he started writing his first Kikuyu novel, Devil on the Cross , on toilet paper.

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NGUGI WA THIONG'O See also: Biography: One of Africa's most accomplished and prominent novelists was born in 1938 in an area known at the
time as the "White Highlands," part of the British-ruled Kenya Colony. His family was involved in the Mau Mau resistance to the colonists, and this experience features prominently in a great deal of his writings His early novels deal with the dilemmas of growing up in two worlds: as a Kikuyu/African and a Westerner/Christian. He was educated at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and the University of Leeds. His early works, Weep Not Child, The River Between, and A Grain of Wheat, depict the conflict of cultures and the role of Christianity, English education, and the increasingly oppressive treatment of the Kikuyu and other Africans, whose land had been taken by the colonists. In his 1986 Decolonising the Mind, his "farewell to English," Ngugi describes language as a way people have not only of describing the world, but of understanding themselves. Ngugi taught at Makerere University, University of Nairobi, and Northwestern University. While at the

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    Banham, Martin. "Talking Back to the Centre: Aspects of West African Theatre." Centres and Margins Contemporary Drama in English 2 . Ed. Bernhard Reitz. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1995. 31-52. Cook, David, and Michael Okenimkpe. Ng˜ug˜i wa Thiong'o: An Exploration of His Writing. 2nd ed. Oxford: J. Currey, 1997.
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o *1938 in Limuru/Afrika, lebt und arbeitet in den USA Stationen u.a. Studium in Uganda und Leeds. 1977 Inhaftierung in Kenia. 1982 Exil in England. 1988 USA. Schreibt in Kikuyu um zu Hause gelesen zu werden. Arbeitsgebiete: Gedicht, Erzählung, Roman Auszeichnungen/Ehrungen/Preise (Auswahl) Premio Nonino (2001). Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl) Mother, sing for me , Theaterstück (1982). Move the center Der gekreuzigte Teufel (1981/1988 - Übertragung Susanne Köhler Autorenhomepage I Buchbestellung I home I e-mail 03 © LYRIKwelt

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