Birth of a dream weaver : a writer's awakening /

Birth of a dream weaver : a writer's awakening /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938- author.
Imprint:	New York : The New Press, 2016. ©2016
Description:	238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, -- 1938- Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, -- 1938- Authors, Kenyan -- 20th century -- Biography. Authors, Kenyan. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10892058

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ISBN:	9781620972403 1620972409
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"Birth of a Dream Weaver charts the very beginnings of a writers creative output. In this wonderful memoir, internationally renowned Kenyan writer and author of the now-classic Wizard and the Crow, Ngugi wa Thiong'o recounts the four years he spent in Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda--threshold years where he found his voice as a playwright, journalist, and novelist, just as Uganda, Kenya, Congo, and other countries were in the final throes of their independence struggles,"--NoveList.

Table of Contents:

Note on Nomenclature
Prologue
1. The Wound in the Heart
2. A Wounded Land
3. Reds and Blacks
4. Benzes, Sneakers, Frisbees, and Flags
5. Penpoints and Fig Trees
6. Writing for the Money of It
7. Black Dolls and Black Masks
8. Transition and That Letter from Paris
9. Boxers and Black Hermits
10. Pages, Stages, Spaces
11. Coal, Rubber, Silver, Gold, and New Flags
12. Working for the Nation
13. Notes and Notebooks
14. A Hell of a Paradise
Acknowledgments
Notes
Photograph Sources