Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa

by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

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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,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198183909

ISBN13:9780198183907

Release Date:May 1998

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:152 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory Education & Reference History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) World Literature

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