A fascinating literary, social, and cultural history of colonial Ghana, Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana sheds new light on understandings of the African colonial experience and the development of postcolonial cultures in West Africa.
A fascinating literary, social, and cultural history of colonial Ghana, Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana sheds new light on understandings of the African colonial experience and the development of postcolonial cultures in West Africa.
Preliminary Table of Contents: Introduction: The Formation of Readerships 1. "Paracolonial" Networks: The Rise of Literary and Debating Societies in Colonial Ghana 2. "Are Women Worse than Men?": Literary Clubs and the Expression of New Masculinities 3. The "Problem" of Literacy: "Good" and "Bad" Literature for African Readers 4. Why Read The Sorrows of Satan?: Marie Corelli's West African Readerships 5. "The Whole Library in a Pocket Handkerchief": Creative Writing in the Vernaculars 6. Ethical Fiction: Casely Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound 7. "Been-Tos" and "Never-Beens": Kobina Sekyi's Satires of Fante Society 8. White Cargoes/Black Cargoes on the West Coast of Africa: Mabel Dove's A Woman in Jade 9. R. E. Obeng's Eighteenpence: The First Ghanaian Novel? Conclusion: The Production of an African Aesthetic Bibliography Index
Preliminary Table of Contents: Introduction: The Formation of Readerships 1. "Paracolonial" Networks: The Rise of Literary and Debating Societies in Colonial Ghana 2. "Are Women Worse than Men?": Literary Clubs and the Expression of New Masculinities 3. The "Problem" of Literacy: "Good" and "Bad" Literature for African Readers 4. Why Read The Sorrows of Satan?: Marie Corelli's West African Readerships 5. "The Whole Library in a Pocket Handkerchief": Creative Writing in the Vernaculars 6. Ethical Fiction: Casely Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound 7. "Been-Tos" and "Never-Beens": Kobina Sekyi's Satires of Fante Society 8. White Cargoes/Black Cargoes on the West Coast of Africa: Mabel Dove's A Woman in Jade 9. R. E. Obeng's Eighteenpence: The First Ghanaian Novel? Conclusion: The Production of an African Aesthetic Bibliography Index
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