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Wrestling with the devil : a prison memoir
- Title
- Wrestling with the devil : a prison memoir / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
- Author
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-
- Publication
- New York : The New Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- 248 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "[This book] ... begins literally half an hour before [the author's release from prison] on December 12, 1978. In one extended flashback he recalls the night, a year earlier, when armed police pulled him from his home and jailed him in Kenya's ... [maximum security prisons]. There, he lives in a prison block with eighteen other political prisoners, quarantined from the general prison population. In a conscious effort to fight back the humiliation and the intended degradation of the spirit, [the author] ... decides to write a novel on toilet paper, the only paper to which he has access, a book that will become his classic, Devil on the cross. Written in the early 1980s and never before published in America, [this book is an account of the author's] drama and the challenges of writing the novel under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He captures not only the excruciating pain that comes from being cut off from his wife and children, but also the spirit of defiance that defines hope. Ultimately, [this book] is a testimony to the power of imagination to help humans break free of confinement, which is truly the story of all art."--
- Subject
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-
- Caitaani mũtharaba-inĩ (Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo)
- 1900-1999
- Authors, Kenyan > 20th century > Biography
- Political prisoners > Kenya > Biography
- Political crimes and offenses > Kenya
- Political prisoners' writings, Kenyan
- Authors, Kenyan
- Political prisoners
- Kenya > Politics and government > 1963-1978
- Kenya
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- Note
- "This book is culled from Detained: A Writers Prison Diary, originally published in 1982"--Note to this edition.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Detention order -- Free thoughts on toilet paper -- Parasites in paradise -- Colonial Lazarus rises from the dead -- The culture of silence and fear -- Wrestling with colonial daemons -- Unchain my hands! -- Meditations! -- Dreams of freedom -- Sherlock Holmes and the strange case of the missing novel -- Devil on the cross.
- Call Number
- Sc D 18-660
- ISBN
- 9781620973332
- 1620973332
- LCCN
- 2017030135
- OCLC
- 990850151
- Author
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938- author.
- Title
- Wrestling with the devil : a prison memoir / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
- Publisher
- New York : The New Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 18-660