Wrestling with the devil : a prison memoir / Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo.
"[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."-- Dust jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781620973332
- ISBN: 1620973332
- Physical Description: 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: Hardback edition.
- Publisher: New York : The New Press, [2018]
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Developed from 'Detained: a writer's prison diary,' originally published in 1982." |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938- Authors, Kenyan > 20th century. Political prisoners > Kenya. Political crimes and offenses > Kenya. Kenya > Politics and government > 1963-1978. |
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