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 --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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