In 1981, Kenyan author and theorist Ngugi wa Thiong’o formally renounced English as his artistic medium. The English language, he claims, is too bound up with colonialism, exploitation, and hegemony to be useful as a means of fighting those forces through literature. Language and politics, for him, are too entwined, too married to one another, [...]
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Demeaning the Mind: The Language of Politics in America
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged clinton, elitism, hegemony, language, mccain, ngugi, palin, politics, postcolonial on September 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
