{"id":55,"date":"2015-09-24T09:42:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T09:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2015-09-24T12:52:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T12:52:22","slug":"blogpost-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"The Quest for Relevance"},"content":{"rendered":"

calling for <\/span><\/p>\n

re-discovery &\u00a0 re-sumption of our language<\/span><\/p>\n

calling for<\/span><\/p>\n

re-generative re-connection with<\/span><\/p>\n

millions of re-volutionary tongues in Africa<\/span><\/p>\n

&\u00a0the world over demanding liberation.<\/span><\/p>\n

it is a . . . calling for <\/span><\/p>\n

re-discovery of our language <\/span><\/p>\n

the re-al language of humankind\/ the language of struggle<\/span><\/p>\n

it is the universoul language<\/span><\/p>\n

underlying all speech & words of our history.<\/span><\/p>\n

struggle. struggle\/<\/span><\/p>\n

makes history. struggle\/<\/span><\/p>\n

makes us. in struggle\/<\/span><\/p>\n

is our history\/ our language &\u00a0our being.<\/span><\/p>\n

struggle begins wherever we are<\/span><\/p>\n

in whatever we do\/ then<\/span><\/p>\n

we become part of those millions<\/span><\/p>\n

whom martin carter once saw<\/span><\/p>\n

sleeping not to dream <\/span><\/p>\n

but <\/span><\/p>\n

dreaming to change the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rewriting Ngugi’s final passage in “The Quest for Relevance” \u00a0allowed me to reinterpret and add meaning to a passage that had already challenged me as it was written in its original prose. Using more space\u00a0enabled me\u00a0to draw attention to words and phrases Ngugi repeats, most notably the word “struggle”. While this repetition is apparent in the prose, allowing the word to spread over\u00a0three lines rather than one and form a sort of shape instead of remain within a straight line forces recognition of the word and its significance in the text. Separating the prefix “re” from words that imply “again” as well as from those that do not (i.e.\u00a0“real”) inspired\u00a0new thoughts\u00a0about the ways “realness” is formed by continuities and cycles, particularly in terms of what Ngugi expresses\u00a0about the nature of language,\u00a0culture, and struggle. I deliberately uncapitalized most words, but was not sure of whether or not to capitalize “Africa” which led me to consider Shange’s capitalization choices and their implications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

calling for re-discovery &\u00a0 re-sumption of our language calling for re-generative re-connection with millions of re-volutionary tongues in Africa &\u00a0the world over demanding liberation. it is a . . . calling for re-discovery of our language the re-al language of humankind\/ the language of struggle it is the universoul language underlying all speech & words […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogpost-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}