Moving the Centre

The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

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Beskrivning

Ngugi advocates a cultural shift to redress the last 400 years of domination by a handful of western nations.In this collection Ngugi is concerned with moving the centre in two senses - between nations and within nations - in order to contribute to the freeing of world cultures from the restrictive walls of nationalism, class, race and genderBetween nations the need is to move the centre from its assumed location in the West to a multiplicity of spheres in all the cultures of the world. Within nations the move should be away from all minority class establishments to the real creative centre among working people in conditions of racial, religious and gender equality.Kenya: EAEP

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1993-01-21
Mått:138 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt:278 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:James Currey
ISBN:9780852555309

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If reading Ngugi's fiction can stir people from stupor, reading his non-fiction works can only do that in greater measure. He has significantly contributed to moving the center through his many years of resistance and writing both fiction and non-fiction in English and especially in Kikuyu. -

Innehållsförteckning

PART I: FREEING CULTURE FROM EUROCENTRISM - Moving the Centre: Towards a Pluralism of Cultures - Creating Space for a Hundred Flowers to Bloom: The Wealth of a Common Global Culture - The Universality of Local Knowledge - Imperialism of Language: English, a Language for the World? - Cultural Dialogue for a New World - The Cultural Factor in the Neo-colonial Era - PART II: FREEING CULTURE FROM COLONIAL L EGACIES - The Writer in a Neo-colonial State - Resistance ot Damnation: The Role of Intellectual Workers - The Role of the Scholar in the Development of African Literatures - Post-colonial Politics & Culture - In Moi's Kenya, Hi story is Subversive - From the Corridors of Silence: The E xile Writes Back - Imperialism & Revolution: Movements for Social Change. (Part contents)