Häftad, Engelska, 2000
Ghanaian Popular Fiction
'Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life' and Other Tales
Del i serien Western African Studies
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Beskrivning
This is a study of the unofficial side of African fiction.Stephanie Newell's book reveals the undocumented writing, publishing and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks which exist outside of mainstream mass-production in Ghana. Gender relations are a dominant theme in the stories which explore and symbolically resolve commonly held pre-occupations about marriage, money and manhood.North America: Ohio U Press
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2000-01-01
- Mått: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
- Vikt: 296 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Serie: Western African Studies
- Antal sidor: 192
- Förlag: James Currey
- ISBN: 9780852555569
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STEPHANIE NEWELL is George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University. Her works include Histories of Dirt in West Africa: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos (2020) and The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa (2013), finalist for the ASA Best Book Prize 2014.
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Fascinating ... Like most good critical works, it kindles interest in its subject, and for this alone Ghanaian Popular Fiction deserves praise. More than that, it is a perceptive study which has made a significant advance in its field
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