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Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa - Clarendon Lectures in English Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies, Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies, New York University; playwright, novelist, and critic.)
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Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa - Clarendon Lectures in English
Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies, Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies, New York University; playwright, novelist, and critic.)
This study explores the relationship between art and political power in society, beginning with the experience of writers in contemporary Africa. It then raises the wider issues of the relationship between the state and the state of art, between the artists and the guardians of a modern state.
152 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 2, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198183907 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 152 |
| Dimensions | 144 × 225 × 16 mm · 338 g |
| Language | English |