{"product_id":"penpoints-gunpoints-and-dreams-ngguggi-9780198183907","title":"Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa","description":"\u003cem\u003ePenpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e explores the relationship between art and political power in society, taking as its starting point the experience of writers in contemporary Africa, where they are often seen as the enemy of the postcolonial state. This study raises the wider issues of the relationship between the state of art and the art of the state, particularly in their struggle for the control of performance space in territorial, temporal, social, and even psychic contexts. Kenyan writer, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, calls for the alliance of art and people power, freedom and dignity against the encroachments of modern states. Art, he argues, needs to be active, engaged, insistent on being what it has always been, the embodiment of dreams for a truly human world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ngguggi,Ngugi Wa Thiong'o,Ngugi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198183909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198183907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.65w x 0.70d","brand":"Ngguggi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47757124632831,"sku":"9780198183907","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bcc86c60-a805-4dd9-895b-2690bbbfcfdc.jpg?v=1765509974","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/penpoints-gunpoints-and-dreams-ngguggi-9780198183907","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}