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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on September 22, 1994. The length of the article is 2280 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Kamau Brathwaite is well-respected among students of comparative literature mainly for his works which explore the African presence in the Caribbean, and in the world. Taken as a whole, his work is an interesting combination of physical and metaphysical concerns. What sets Brathwaite apart from other poets is his ability to intertwine his knowledge of geography and history with literature.

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Title: Kamau Brathwaite: the voice of African presence.
Author: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1994
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v68Issue: n4Page: p677(3)

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 2636 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Recovering the original.(Essays)
Author: Ngugi Wa Thiong'O
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2004
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 78Issue: 3-4Page: 13(3)

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This is the renowned play that was developed with Kikuyu villagers at the Kamiriithu Cultural Centre at Limuru. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

The play that incarcerated its writer, still great 30 years on!
A fantastic play from Ngugi and Kamiriithu, the group who put the play on. Ngugi talks of this play in 'Decolonising the Mind' and 'Detained,' his prison diary that he wrote after being incarcerated for a year due to his involvement with writing the play. After reading it, it is understandable why the Kenyan government felt threatened by it - it talks candidly about neocolonialism, is filled with Gikuyu songs and proverbs, and chants the message of the famous Mau Mau rebellion. In short, it is a reminder for and by the people that Kenya IS the people and will never be anything less.

I will marry when I want
This is a wonderful play and as a reader feel lucky to have been able to share the insights offered through story since it is designed to be performed.The play tells of the time not too long after Kenya claimed its inderpendence.The play eludes the struggles the people of Africa continued to have and the remaining hold European imperialism remainingly has on their culture, their people, and their lives.Very insightful, written in black and white, very little interpretation needed. A must read.

I will die of boredom when i want
I had to read this play as part of my International Baccalaureate English A1 HL course, World Literature section.

this is the WORST play I have ever, ever read.
Being a lover of English, I desperately struggled to find something good about this play, but I couldn't. The musical interludes only add to the all-round tedium of this play. do not read it unless you have to, I implore. ... Read more

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This is the first in-depth study of Ngugi’s drama and the Kamiriithu experiment in popular theater. Combining historical criticism, postcolonial and gender theory, Gicingiri Ndigirigi probes the dramatic texts for literary meaning while presenting them as the enactments and records of their respective socio-political milieu. He also locates the dramatic texts within their performance settings and discusses the politics associated with the performance of the major plays, Ngaahika Ndeenda, which were co-authored with Ngugi wa Mirii and Maitu Njugira.

This book also reveals how Ngugi’s art becomes progressively people-centered through the incorporation of traditional Gikuyu performance modes in both the drama and fiction. The two Kamiriithu plays are presented here as a logical confluence of artistic and ideological motives in which the lives of the underprivileged of Kenya are made both the subjects and objects of the drama.

Unlike other commentators and critics of the Kamiriithu experiment, Ndigirigi also talked to the former Kamiriithu participants themselves in their own language and visited them in their homes and social environments. This gave him deep insight into the Kamiriithu itself and the people behind it—and he uses this knowledge to analyze the theater project and its critics. The book closes with a critical examination of developments in Kenyan theater since Kamiriithu. ... Read more

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Passionate, fierce, and lyrical, Meena Alexander’s memoir traces her evolution as a postcolonial writer from a privileged childhood in India to a turbulent adolescence in the Sudan and then to England and New York City. In this tenth-anniversary edition of Fault Lines, this Alexander challenges the assumptions of life as a South Asian American woman writer in a post-9-11 world. With poetic insight and an honesty that will galvanize readers—both familiar and new—Alexander reveals her difficult recovery from a long-buried childhood trauma that revolutionizes the entire landscape of her memory: of her family, of her writing process and the meaning of memoir, and of her very self, now and before.

Meena Alexander is a poet and professor of English and creative writing at Hunter College and the City University of New York.

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Interesting
As a student and a poet, I was first introduced to Meena Alexander when I was reading an example of what to expect on an Ap test (in English).I started to actually pay attention and read throught the diction and syntax to see what lay beneath, and what I say was magnificent.This book is acollectors piece for psychologists and th ecommon person.After all, whohas not asked "Who am I?"This book answers that question forMeena, and if you read it yourself, it may provide a simple answer as well. But don't count on it, for Fault Lines shows us the confliction throughconflicting images an example of Humanity itself. ... Read more