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Something Torn And New: An African Renaissance
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

    Publication Date: Feb 24, 2009
    List Price: $25.00
    Format: Paperback, 176 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780465009466
    Imprint: Basic Civitas Books
    Publisher: Perseus Books
    Parent Company: Lagardère Group

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    Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o 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 Africa’s 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, Ngugi’s quest is for wholeness. Wide-ranging, erudite, and hopeful, Something Torn and New is a cri de coeur to save Africa’s cultural future.



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