...Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o This essay looks at the novel as a globalectic heterotopia. It draws on a personal history of my writing the novel Devil on the Cross while a political prisoner in a maximum-security prison in Kenya in 1977–78. In explaining why I turned to the novel rather than any other genre...

... might call the hard-core real, true to life and gory. 4 It locates the center at the margin, a gesture that is expected of postcolonial texts, and performs “globalectically” to world the novel in a way that reflects the kind of reciprocity that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has argued is necessary for abolishing...

... “the other real sites that can be found within the culture” ( 3 ). On reading Ngũgĩ's essay, “A Globalectic Heterotopia,” I was struck by the uncanny appropriateness of Foucault's concept as a model for this special issue as a whole, as, that is, a single collection of essays, each of which explains how...