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

Name: Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa
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ISBN: 9780198183907

ISBN-10: 0198183909

ISBN-13: 9780198183907

Edition: 1998

Authors: NgÅ©gÄ© wa NgÅ©gÄ© 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, 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…

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List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/21/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 152
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Art War with the State: Writers and Guardians of a Postcolonial Society



Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: The Conflict Between the Crafts of Art and the State



Enacting Power: The Politics of the Performance State



Voicing Silence: Language, Democracy, and a New World Order



Renaissance or Orature: Freeing Creativity from the Literary Colonisation of Orality


Conclusion