Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1: Art War with the State: Writers and Guardians of a Postcolonial Society
2: Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: The Conflict Between the Crafts of Art and the State
3: Enacting Power: The Politics of the Performance State
4: Voicing Silence: Language, Democracy, and a New World Order
5: Renaissance or Orature: Freeing Creativity from the Literary Colonisation of Orality
Conclusion

About the Author

Ngugi wa Thiong'or, an acclaimed novelist, playwright, and critic, is Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies at New York University.