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• Title: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's Politics of Language: Commitment and Complicity (Texto en Ingles) (Ensayo Critico)
• Author : Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture (UEM)
• Release Date : January 01, 2011
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 98 KB

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Introduction The rift between Ngugi wa Thiong'o's formal education and the familial and political contexts in which he was born and raised, as well as the literary impasses that ensued from his condition as an exiled constitute some of the main issues the writer has tried to negotiate in the course of his career (1). For many of his critics, Ngugi has succeeded in overcoming the colonialist bases of his European education, a change he himself has defined as an "epistemological break" with his past. Such rupture, it is worth remembering, resulted, according to the writer, from his contact with the people of the Kamiriithu Community Education and Culture Centre, who invited him to participate in the Centre's cultural projects as an educator and playwright in 1976. As Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1997, p. 44-45) comments in "The Language of African Theatre", "the process was one of continuous learning. Learning of our history. Learning of what obtains in factories. Learning of what goes on in farms and plantations. Learning our language, for the peasants were essentially the guardians of the language through years of use". In the writer's words, the project ultimately "forced" him "to turn to Gikuyu", his mother tongue, and to begin writing in that language (2).

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