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

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-152

  Wa Thiong'o, Ngûgï ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Art; Art of the state; Dignity; Freedom; People power; Political power; Postcolonial state; State of art

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957361841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198183907.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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