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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136455803321

Autore

Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo <1938->

Titolo

Birth of a dream weaver : a writer's awakening / / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : The New Press, , 2016

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (143 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Disciplina

828.91403

Soggetti

Authors, Kenyan - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Prologue -- The wound in the heart -- A wounded land -- Reds and blacks -- Benzes, sneakers, frisbees, and flags -- Penpoints and fig trees -- Writing for the money of it -- Black dolls and black masks -- Transition and that letter from Paris -- Boxers and black hermits -- Pages, stages, spaces -- Coal, rubber, silver, gold, and new flags -- Working for the nation -- Notes and notebooks -- A hell of a paradise.