Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Photographic Section
- Introduction: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: Reflections on His Life of Writing
- Ngũgĩ at Work
- Part I Serenades & Beginnings
- Part II Memories, Recollections & Tributes
- Part III Working with Ngũgĩ
- Part IV The Writer, the Critic & the World
- 23 Bricklayer & Architect of a World to Come
- 24 Revisioning Goethe's Idea of ‘World Literature’ [Commendation Address On the Awarding of the Dr. Phil. h.c. (Honorary Doctor of Letters) to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, University of Bayreuth, Germany, April 2014]
- 25 Globalectics: Beyond Postcoloniality, & Engaging the Caribbean
- 26 Ngũgĩ & the Quest for a Linguistic Paradigm Shift: Some Reflections
- 27 Autobiographical Prototypes in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Early Fiction & Drama
- 28 Homecoming: The Idea of Return in the Works of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- 29 Gũcookia Rũĩ Mũkaro
- 30 Muthoni's Afterlives
- Part V The Other Ngũgĩ
- Appendixes
- References
- Bibliography of Ngũgĩ's Primary Works
- Works Cited
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
28 - Homecoming: The Idea of Return in the Works of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
from Part IV - The Writer, the Critic & the World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2019
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Photographic Section
- Introduction: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: Reflections on His Life of Writing
- Ngũgĩ at Work
- Part I Serenades & Beginnings
- Part II Memories, Recollections & Tributes
- Part III Working with Ngũgĩ
- Part IV The Writer, the Critic & the World
- 23 Bricklayer & Architect of a World to Come
- 24 Revisioning Goethe's Idea of ‘World Literature’ [Commendation Address On the Awarding of the Dr. Phil. h.c. (Honorary Doctor of Letters) to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, University of Bayreuth, Germany, April 2014]
- 25 Globalectics: Beyond Postcoloniality, & Engaging the Caribbean
- 26 Ngũgĩ & the Quest for a Linguistic Paradigm Shift: Some Reflections
- 27 Autobiographical Prototypes in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Early Fiction & Drama
- 28 Homecoming: The Idea of Return in the Works of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- 29 Gũcookia Rũĩ Mũkaro
- 30 Muthoni's Afterlives
- Part V The Other Ngũgĩ
- Appendixes
- References
- Bibliography of Ngũgĩ's Primary Works
- Works Cited
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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- NgugiReflections on his Life of Writing, pp. 163 - 167Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018