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From: "Hastings, Waller" <hastingw-AT-wolf.northern.edu>
Subject: RE: call for a reading list
Date: Mon, 27 May 96 08:42:00 CDT



Laurel Taylor asks for Commonwealth texts dealing with language.  A couple 
of possibilities might include:
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, *Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in 
African Literature*.  Heinemann, 1986.
Chinua Achebe, *Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays*. Doubleday/Anchor, 
1989.
     Both contain some discussion of the problem of language.  Ngugi, of 
course, has foresworn the use of English for his writing, insisting that an 
African writer should write in an African language; Achebe has taken a 
different position (although I'm not sure that this reference is the best 
source for his views on the subject - unfortunately I cannot find a more 
specific reference in my notes).

wally hastings
hastingw-AT-wolf.northern.edu


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