<b>Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s politics of language: commitment and complicity</b> - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v33i1.6348

  • Angela Lamas Rodrigues Universidade Estadual de Londrina
Palavras-chave: African languages, European languages, colonialism, exile, politics of language

Resumo

Ngũgĩ 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 Ngũgĩ’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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Biografia do Autor

Angela Lamas Rodrigues, Universidade Estadual de Londrina
Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas, Área: Literaturas em Língua Inglesa
Publicado
2011-03-28
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Rodrigues, A. L. (2011). <b>Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s politics of language: commitment and complicity</b&gt; - 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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