Research Catalog

Title

Globalectics : theory and the politics of knowing / Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

Author

Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.

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Details

Description

xi, 104 pages; 22 cm.

Series Statement

The Wellek library lectures in critical theory

Uniform Title

Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine

Subject

• Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Literature and globalization
• African literature > Political aspects
• Postcolonialism in literature
• Literatur
• Literaturtheorie
• Postkolonialismus
• Literatur
• Entkolonialisierung
• Literature and globalization
• Literature > Theory, etc
• Afrika

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-93) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Riches of poor theory -- The English master and the colonial bondsman -- The education of the colonial bondsman -- Globalectics: reading the world in the postcolonial -- The oral native and the writing master: orature, orality, and cyborality.

ISBN

• 9780231159500 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231159501 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780231159517 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 023115951X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780231530750 (ebook)
• 0231530757 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2011025562

OCLC

• 863199696
• SCSB-11203099

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library