Stephanie Newell

Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780253215260
• ISBN-10: 0253215269
• Artikelnr.: 21673017

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Newell lectures in Postcolonial Literature in the English Department at Trinity College, Dublin. She is author of Ghanaian Popular Fiction (Currey; Ohio, 2000), and editor of Readings in African Popular Fiction (IUP).

Inhaltsangabe

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