Albert Wendt and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Reading and Conversation--Conversation between Al and Ngũgĩ
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2013-06-27
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Albert Wendt and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o engage in a conversation regarding their literary work and on the overarching themes of the Words in the World symposium.
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Cristina Bacchilega, Albert Wendt, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, conversation between Albert Wendt and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, orature and literature, relationship of orature to literature, the oral tradition, listening to stories being told at night, Samoan, Samoan, Sāmoa, oral influence of the Bible, Bible and orality, Cain and Abel, the story of David, adaptation of biblical stories into orality, impact of the Bible on orality, Bible as literalization of orality, orature as foundation of the arts, definition of orature, orature versus oral literature, orature as legitimate, literature borrows from orature, "Matigari", the impact of the digital revolution on orature, "Globalectics", cyberality, Facebook, online chatting, ebooks, addiction to Facebook, how stories circulate, African literatures and literatures from Africa in the Pacific, world literature as a category, orthography and standardization, Pacific literature, birth of Pacific literature, having to write it and critique it, fight to legitimize literature, activism and creative writing, creative writing as activism, postcolonialism, Words in the World, where you are is your starting point in your journey in the world, mental gymnastics of colonialism, importance of knowing where you are, I have to know where I am in order to connect with where I am going, and to find my way back
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