Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Something Torn and New "One of Africa's greatest writers (San Francisco Chronicle) makes an impassioned plea for the resurrection of African languageand African culture itself
Full description- Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
- Published: 05 March 2009
- Format: Paperback 176 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: General | Migration, Immigration & Emigration | Black & Asian Studies | Political Structure & Processes | African History | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780465009466 ISBN 10: 0465009468
- Sales rank: 692,642
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Full description for Something Torn and New
Novelist Ngugi wa Thiongo has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. In Something Torn and New, Ngugi explores Africas historical, economic, and cultural fragmentation by slavery, colonialism, and globalization. Throughout this tragic history, a constant and irrepressible force was Europhonism: the replacement of native names, languages, and identities with European ones. The result was the dismemberment of African memory. Seeking to remember language in order to revitalize it, Ngugis quest is for wholeness. Wide-ranging, erudite, and hopeful, Something Torn and New is a cri de coeur to save Africas cultural future.
