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Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature (Hardcover)) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 7 days | |Short Description for Penpoints, Gunpoints and DreamsThis study explores the relationship between art and political power in society, beginning with the experience of writers in contemporary Africa. It then raises the wider issues of the relationship between the state and the state of art, between the artists and the guardians of a modern state.
Full description- Publisher: Clarendon Press
- Published: 21 May 1998
- Format: Hardback 152 pages
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- Categories: Art Theory | Literary Studies: General | Cultural Studies | Politics & Government
- ISBN 13: 9780198183907 ISBN 10: 0198183909
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Full description for Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams
Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams explores the relationship between art and political power in society, taking as its starting point the experience of writers in contemporary Africa, where they are often seen as the enemy of the postcolonial state. This study, in turn, raises the wider issues of the relationship between the state of art and the art of the state, particularly in their struggle for the control of performance space in territorial, temporal, social, and even psychic contexts. Kenyan writer, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, calls for the alliance of art and people power, freedom and dignity against the encroachments of modern states. Art, he argues, needs to be active, engaged, insistent on being what it has always been, the embodiment of dreams for a truly human world.
