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100 0 a| Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo,d| 1938-2025e| author.=| ^A17258;

245 10 a| Wrestling with the devil :b| a prison memoir /c| Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.;

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264 1 a| New York :b| The New Press,c| 2018.;

300 a| 248 pages ;c| 22 cm;

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500 a| "This book is culled from Detained: A Writers Prison Diary, originally published in 1982"--Note to this edition.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references.;

505 0 a| 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.;

520 a| "[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."--c| Dust jacket.;

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Wrestling with the devil : a prison memoir / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

Author/creator	Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo author.
Format	Book
Publication	New York : The New Press, 2018.
Description	248 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects	Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-2025 Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-2025 Caitaani mũtharaba-inĩ. Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-2025 Authors, Kenyan--20th century. --Biography. Political prisoners--Kenya. --Biography. Political prisoners' writings, Kenyan. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. HISTORY / Africa / East. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. Political prisoners--Kenya. Political crimes and offenses--Kenya. Authors, Kenyan--20th century. Kenya--Politics and government. --1963-1978.

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.
Abstract	"[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.
General note	"This book is culled from Detained: A Writers Prison Diary, originally published in 1982"--Note to this edition.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
Genre/form	Autobiographies.
LCCN	2017030135
ISBN	9781620973332 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	1620973332

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