If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the … - Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good or illuminating, then that work is translated into the language of another community - then they begin to see through their language that the problems described there are the same as the problems they are having. They can identify with characters from another language group.

Character, Characters, Community, Groups, Illuminating, Story

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I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

Irvine, Kenya, New York, People, Writing

Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

Act, Break Out, Communities, Community, Confinement, Linguistic

Of course it's very, very important for me to feel Kenya, to feel, every day, this is where images come from. So to be taken away from that by political pressure or other means - one is taken away from the area, which is the basis of inspiration - is difficult.

Area, Course, Difficult, Inspiration, Mean, Taken

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

Areas, Likes, Location, Work

Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it; those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow [. . . ] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes

Wall, War, Eye, Breaking, Make, Tomorrow