Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams

Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-19-818390-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Reihe: Clarendon Lectures in English

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, in turn, 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, and even psychic contexts. Kenyan writer, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, calls for the alliance of art and people power, freedom and dignity against the encroachments of modern states. Art, he argues, needs to be active, engaged, insistent on being what it has always been, the embodiment of dreams for a truly human world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ngguggi

Ngugi

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o^r, an acclaimed novelist, playwright, and critic, is Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies at New York University.