Dreams in a Time of War
(Sprache: Englisch)
Presenting a portrait of his experiences as a young boy in an African nation in flux, the author describes his day-to-day life as the fifth child of his father's third wife in a family that included twenty-four children born to four different mothers.
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Presenting a portrait of his experiences as a young boy in an African nation in flux, the author describes his day-to-day life as the fifth child of his father's third wife in a family that included twenty-four children born to four different mothers.
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In Dreams in a Time of War, Ngugi wa Thiong'o paints a mesmerising portrait of a young boy's experiences in an African nation in flux.
Beginning in the late 1930s, this moving and entertaining memoir describes Ngugi's day-to-day life as the fifth child of his father's third wife in a family that included twenty-four children born to four different mothers. Against the backdrop of World War II, which affected the lives of Africans under British colonial rule in unexpected ways, Ngugi spent his childhood as the apple of his mother's eye before attending school to slake what was then considered a bizarre thirst for learning.
As he grows up, the wider political and social changes occurring in Kenya at this time begin to impinge on the boy's life in both inspiring and frightening ways. Through telling the story of his grandparents and parents and of his brothers' involvement on different sides of the violent Mau Mau uprising, Ngugi wa Thiong'o takes us back to a momentous period in Kenyan history, deftly etching a bygone era, capturing the landscape, the people and their culture, and the social and political vicissitudes of life under colonialism and war.This book has been selected to receive financial assistance from English PEN's Writers in Translation programme supported by Bloomberg. English PEN exists to promote literature and its understanding, uphold writers' freedoms around the world, campaign against the persecution and imprisonment of writers for stating their views, and promote the friendly co-operation of writers and free exchange of ideas.
Autoren-Porträt von Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong o wurde 1938 als Sohn einer Bauernfamilie in Kamirithu/Limuru in Kenia geboren. 1967 wurde er Dozent für Literatur an der University of Nairobi, wo er bis 1977 lehrte. Wegen seiner kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem postkolonialen Kenia und eines regierungskritischen Theaterstücks wurde er 1977 ohne Anklage inhaftiert und erst nach einer Kampagne von Amnesty International ein Jahr später aus dem Gefängnis entlassen. Nachdem sein Leben unter dem Regime von Daniel arap Moi bedroht wurde, ging er 1982 ins Exil nach London. 1989 übersiedelte er in die USA, wo er heute an der University of California in Irvine Englische und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaften lehrt.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- 2010, 272 Seiten, Maße: 14,4 x 2,9 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Harvill Secker
- ISBN-10: 1846553776
- ISBN-13: 9781846553776
Sprache:
Englisch
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In his crowded career and his eventful life, Ngugi has enacted, for all to see, the paradigmatic trials and quandaries of a contemporary African writer caught in sometimes implacable political, social, racial, and linguistic currents The New Yorker
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