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Decolonizing art, persons, creativity and populations. Imagining capital : Ngũgĩ, Marx and Freud / Simon Gikandi -- Ngũgĩ's theory of the anti-imperialist novel : the re-appropriation of a literary form / Marcial González -- "What withstands stands" : Martin Carter and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's ethics of involvement / Christopher Winks -- The Grace of resisting : Art against the institution (followed by) Grace needs a mirror (performance script) / Joyce Lu -- Tim:pn'it : of space, of surveillance, of time / Patricia Penn Hilden -- Moving language(s) and mental, natural and pedagogical ecologies. Open letter to Ngũgĩ / M. NourbeSe Philip -- Ngũgĩ, Mphahlele and the language question in the US / Timothy J. Reiss -- "None but ourselves can free the mind" : Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o an Marcus Garvey Pan Di Siem Piej / Carolyn Cooper -- Land and water : supports of life in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Petals of blood and Helon Habila's Oil on water / Elaine Savory -- From British-US to transnational cultural studies : appropriating Ngũgĩ for the journey / Handel Kashope Wright -- Deliberate vulgarity : performing the demotic, transforming cultural spaces? / Pamela Mordecai -- Globalectics : transculturing art, education, politics and societies. The Kenya-Korean connection / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o -- He Pāpahi Lei no Ngũgĩ / Noenoe K Silva -- Ngũgĩ : decolonizing the curriculum (towards a spatial turn in the humanities) / David Lloyd -- Globalectic belonging : home and world / R Radhakrishnan -- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o : teacher, comrade, revolutionary (2002) / Haunani-Kay Trask. "This collection on Ngũgĩ's work and the reach of his thinking chiefly within the US and areas of its closest hegemony joins artists, activists, critics and scholars (often the same) from the Caribbean through North America to Hawai'i. All have been deeply touched by Ngũgĩ's artistic, critical and political work, and testify to his being perhaps the "symbol" of radical political and artistic exchanges between Africa and America (and the West generally) and how that readily expands to global transcultural dialogue (as his own chapter attests). The chapters, together and singularly, track his hopeful but not naïve path from decolonizing the mind (defusing the "cultural bomb" that is colonizing's obliteration of names, languages, cultures and homeland bonds) to balancing cultures as equal knots in the mesh of an evenly-woven global net, then to finding and making ties and exchanges in a global dialogue. For some this means seeing how Ngũgĩ's novels sap and alter "traditional" (Western) ideas and aims of the novel in particular and fictive imagination in general (what in the West takes such forms as "literature," "art," "aesthetics"...). Most explore his impact (often in their own artistic, political and scholarly work) on ideas and practices of language and culture; of decolonization of minds and bodies and personal, social and ecological well-being; of education and new non-hierarchical and transcultural pedagogies; of savagely centered social and political control (at their extreme, US and other carceral regimes) and decolonized freedoms for individuals and populations. The start lies in refusing murderous economies of slave trade, colonization and neoliberal exploitation and contest. The ongoing lies in creative ecologies of exchange, circulation and the knotted equalities, compassion and knowings of the infinite variety of the world's cultures. For what threads all these chapters is that Ngũgĩ's exile in the US has led him to develop one of the most potent conceptions of how a truly global reality of transcultural exchange among equal communities (what he now calls globalectics) may actively come to exist"--
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