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Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938-
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938- Caitaani mũtharaba-inĩ.
Authors, Kenyan -- 20th century -- Biography.
Political prisoners -- Kenya -- Biography.
Political prisoners' writings, Kenyan.
Kenya -- Politics and government -- 1963-1978.
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938-
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938-
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938- Caitaani mũtharaba-inĩ.
Authors, Kenyan -- 20th century -- Biography.
Political prisoners -- Kenya -- Biography.
Political prisoners' writings, Kenyan.
Kenya -- Politics and government -- 1963-1978.
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Wrestling with the devil : a prison memoir / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938-
The New Press, 2018.
Call #:
828
.91403
N576w
Subjects
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938-
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938- Caitaani mũtharaba-inĩ.
Authors, Kenyan -- 20th century -- Biography.
Political prisoners -- Kenya -- Biography.
Political prisoners' writings, Kenyan.
Kenya -- Politics and government -- 1963-1978.
ISBN:
9781620973332 (hc.)
Description:
248 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"This book is developed from Detained: A Writers Prison Diary, originally published in 1982"--Note to this edition.
Bibliography:
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.
Summary:
"Wrestling with the Devil, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release 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 Kamĩtĩ Maximum Security Prison, one of the largest in Africa. 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, Ngũgĩ—the world-renowned author of Weep Not, Child; Petals of Blood; and Wizard of the Crow—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, Wrestling with the Devil is Ngũgĩ’s account of the 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, Wrestling with the Devil is a testimony to the power of imagination to help humans break free of confinement, which is truly the story of all art."--From publisher.
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