Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana

個数：

Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana

  • 在庫がございません。海外の書籍取次会社を通じて出版社等からお取り寄せいたします。
    通常6～9週間ほどで発送の見込みですが、商品によってはさらに時間がかかることもございます。
    【重要ご説明事項】
    1. 納期遅延や、ご入手不能となる場合がございます。
    2. 複数冊ご注文の場合、分割発送となる場合がございます。
    3. 美品のご指定は承りかねます。
  • 【入荷遅延について】
    世界情勢の影響により、海外からお取り寄せとなる洋書・洋古書の入荷が、表示している標準的な納期よりも遅延する場合がございます。
    おそれいりますが、あらかじめご了承くださいますようお願い申し上げます。
  • ◆画像の表紙や帯等は実物とは異なる場合があります。
  • ◆ウェブストアでの洋書販売価格は、弊社店舗等での販売価格とは異なります。
    また、洋書販売価格は、ご注文確定時点での日本円価格となります。
    ご注文確定後に、同じ洋書の販売価格が変動しても、それは反映されません。
  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 252 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780253215260
  • DDC分類 028.90966709

Full Description

". . . a book that will break new ground in African cultural studies. . . . [it] will appeal not only to literary scholars but also to social historians and cultural anthropologists." —Karin Barber

Focusing on the broad educational aims of the colonial administration and missionary societies, Stephanie Newell draws on newspaper archives, early unofficial texts, and popular sources to uncover how Africans used literacy to carve out new cultural, social, and economic spaces for themselves. Newly literate Africans not only shaped literary tastes in colonial Africa but also influenced how and where English was spoken; established standards for representations of gender, identity, and morality; and created networks for African literary production, dissemination, and reception throughout British West Africa. Newell reveals literacy and reading as powerful social forces that quickly moved beyond the missionary agenda and colonial regulation. 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.

Contents

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