[PDF.08cp] Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa (Clarendon Lectures in English)

Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa (Clarendon Lectures in English)

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 | #2140330 in Books |  1998-05-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.60 x.80 x8.60l,.75 | File type: PDF | 160 pages

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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| intelligent, philosophical, pertinent|By A Customer|Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's book is an incredible achievement. It is divided into four lectures and each one contains a lot of information as well as well formed, well supported philosophies. It is not detached in its philosophy, however, but right down to earth. He makes sure to practically apply his ideas to the modern African|About the Author||Ngugi wa Thiong'o, an acclaimed novelist, playwright, and critic, is Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies at New York University.|

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 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 p...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa (Clarendon Lectures in English)   |  Ng~ug~i wa Thiong'o. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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