Abstract
AbstractThis chapter explores Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's significance in world literature through the frame of publishers' networks and literary activism, and argues for the ways in which his work has redefined ideas of “world literary space.” The chapter opens by reading the networks and structures of value made visible through the Nairobi launch ofPetals of Blood– Ngũgĩ's fourth novel published in Heinemann's African Writers Series and his last written in English. Leading on from this, it places Ngũgĩ's critical interventions on world literature, in essay collectionsMoving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms(1993) andGlobalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing(2014), into dialogue with his own Africa‐centered publishing relationships and trajectories. Ultimately, the chapter draws attention to Ngũgĩ's crucial work – visible through his literary production, critical interventions and publishing decisions – in “moving the centre” of world literature away from the West.
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