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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938- author.     Subjects     Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938-     Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938- Caitaani mũtharaba-inĩ.     Authors, Kenyan -- 20th century -- Biography.     Political prisoners -- Kenya -- Biography.     Political prisoners' writings, Kenyan.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938- author.       by title:      Wrestling with the d...         MARC Display

Wrestling with the devil : a prison memoir / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938- author. New York : The New Press, [2018] Subjects Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938-   Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo, 1938- Caitaani mũtharaba-inĩ.   Authors, Kenyan -- 20th century -- Biography.   Political prisoners -- Kenya -- Biography.   Political prisoners' writings, Kenyan. ISBN:  9781620973332 hardcover alkaline paper Description:  248 pages ; 22 cm Contents:  Detention order -- Free thoughts on toilet paper -- Parasites in paradise -- Colonial Lazarus rises from the dead -- The culture of silence and fear -- Wrestling with colonial daemons -- Unchain my hands! -- Meditations! -- Dreams of freedom -- Sherlock Holmes and the strange case of the missing novel -- Devil on the cross. Requests:  0 Summary:  "[This book] ... begins literally half an hour before [the author's release from prison] on December 12, 1978. In one extended flashback he recalls the night, a year earlier, when armed police pulled him from his home and jailed him in Kenya's ... [maximum security prisons]. There, he lives in a prison block with eighteen other political prisoners, quarantined from the general prison population. In a conscious effort to fight back the humiliation and the intended degradation of the spirit, [the author] ... decides to write a novel on toilet paper, the only paper to which he has access, a book that will become his classic, Devil on the cross. Written in the early 1980s and never before published in America, [this book is an account of the author's] drama and the challenges of writing the novel under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He captures not only the excruciating pain that comes from being cut off from his wife and children, but also the spirit of defiance that defines hope. Ultimately, [this book] is a testimony to the power of imagination to help humans break free of confinement, which is truly the story of all art."--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 823.91403 Ngugi wa Thiongo Ng Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Biography B Ngugi wa Thiongo Ng Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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