Wrestling with the devil : a prison memoir
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New York : The New Press, 2018.
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248 pages ; 22 cm
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Published
New York : The New Press, 2018.
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Book
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1803
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English

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"This book is culled from Detained: A Writers Prison Diary, originally published in 1982"--Note to this edition.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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"[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.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo. (2018). Wrestling with the devil: a prison memoir . The New Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-. 2018. Wrestling With the Devil: A Prison Memoir. The New Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, 1938-. Wrestling With the Devil: A Prison Memoir The New Press, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo. Wrestling With the Devil: A Prison Memoir The New Press, 2018.

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