literary theory – Tichaona Chinyelu

February 21, 2018

Kit de Waal: ‘Make room for working class writers’ | Books | The Guardian

When Kit de Waal was growing up in 1970s Birmingham, no one like her – poor, black and Irish – wrote books. Forty years on, the author asks, what has changed? Source: Kit de Waal: ‘Make room for working class writers’ | Books | The Guardian

INTERVIEW: Amiri Baraka: Djali Dialogue – Advice To Young Writers

The quote below is excerpted from an interview Kalamu ya Salaam did with Amiri Baraka. ya Salaam: It’s one thing to have that sense, and it’s another thing to have the technical facility to put that sensibility on the page. Baraka: Practice. Practice. Practice. I think that’s the only thing you can do. Like my grandmother said,…

Linguicide: An Excerpt from Something Torn and New

Word Press Tags: tichaona chinyelu, ngugi wa thiong’o, linguicide, something torn and new “Africans, in the diaspora and on the continent, were soon to be recipients of this linguistic logic of conquest, with two results: linguicide in the case of the diaspora and linguistic famine, or linguifam, on the continent. Linguicide is the linguistic equivalent of genocide. Genocide involves…