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Humanities Podcasts
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Being a Writer in a Society in Crisis
01/21/08 | Ngugi on Being a Writer in a Society in Crisis on the occasion of his 70th Birthday
Irvine -- As UC Irvine prepares to celebrate "Ngugi's Spirit," on Saturday, January 26, for our Martin Luther King Day show this Monday at 9 a.m., Subversity (KUCI) converses with Distinguished Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong'o on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Ngugi is the Director of the acclaimed International Center for Writing and Translation at UCI. He is also a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature with Comparative Literature as his home department.
Joining us in the conversation on "Being a Writer in a Society in Crisis" is Gabriele Schwab, Chancellor's Prof. of English and Comparative Literature at UCI. We'll focus on the current turmoil in Kenya.
One of the foremost contemporary African writers and an exile of Kenya and former political prisoner, Ngugi's work as literary figure, activist, and academic testify to his relentless passion and commitment to deliver much needed critique. In 2006 Ngugi published his first novel in nearly two decades, the critically lauded and lengthy The Wizard and the Crow, which went on to win the California Gold Award for fiction in 2007. |
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- Ngugi and Schwab on Subversity - NgugiInterview.mp3
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