Writers in Politics: A Re-engagement with Issues of Literature and Society (Studies in African Literature) [Revised - Enlarged] 0852555415, 9780852555415

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English Pages 192 [186] Year 1997

Table of contents :
Front cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface to the Revised Edition 1997
Preface to the First Edition 1982
I: War of Images
1: Literature and Society
2: Standing on our Grounds
3: Literature and Double Consciousness
4: Return to the Roots
II: Words and Powers
5: Writers in Politics
6: Freedom of Expression
7 A Novel in Politics
8: J. M. Kariuki
9: The Price of Freedom
III: Links of Hope
10: Afric-Asian Writers
11: Africa and Asia
12: Culture in a Crisis
13: Kamau Brathwaite
14: Learning from our Ancestors
Appendix: On Civilization
Index

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James Currey an imprint of Boydell and Brewer Ltd, PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and 668 Mount Hope Avenue, Rochester NY 14620-2731, USA www.jamescurrey.com www.boydell and brewer.com East African Educational Publishers PO Box 45314 Nairobi Heinemann Educational Books, Inc 361 Hanover Street Portsmouth, NH 03801-3912, USA © Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 1981 and 1997 First published 1981 Revised & enlarged edition 1997 Transferred to digital printing

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