NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o’s politics of language: commitment and complicity - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v33i1.6348

Autores/as

  • Angela Lamas Rodrigues Universidade Estadual de Londrina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v33i1.6348

Palabras clave:

African languages, European languages, colonialism, exile, politics of language

Resumen

NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o’s politics of language has been controversially received by his critics, who tend to either overemphasize his revolutionary trajectory as an African writer or devalue his efforts to produce an African language-based literature. Through a historical and cultural analysis, the present work offers an alternative view of NgÅ©gÄ©’s treatment of the language question as a problematic, yet necessary, attempt to interrogate and alter his cultural alignments with European colonialism.

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Biografía del autor/a

  • Angela Lamas Rodrigues, Universidade Estadual de Londrina
    Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas, Ãrea: Literaturas em Língua Inglesa

Publicado

2011-03-28

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Cómo citar

Rodrigues, A. L. (2011). NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o’s politics of language: commitment and complicity - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v33i1.6348. Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 33(1), 13-21. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v33i1.6348

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