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West African Popular Theatre
Av Karin Barber, John Collins m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
269 kr
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" . . . a ground-breaking contribution to the field of African literature . . . " —Research in African Literatures"Anyone with the slightest interest in West African cultures, performance or theatre should immediately rush out and buy this book." —Leeds African Studies Bulletin"A seminal …
Generation of Plays
Yoruba Popular Life in Theater
Av Karin Barber
Häftad, 2003
400 kr
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NEW CATALOG COPY (announcing paperback edition):In The Generation of Plays, Karin Barber recounts the history of the Odin Adéjobi Theater Company and uncovers the pulse points of generation, production, and improvisation that merge when a Yorùbá popular drama is brought to the stage. This rich and …
Africa's Hidden Histories
Everyday Literacy and Making the Self
Av Karin Barber
Häftad, 2006
353 kr
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Colonial Africa saw an explosion of writing and printing, produced and circulated not only by highly educated and visible elites, but also by wage laborers, clerks, village headmasters, traders, and other obscure aspirants to elite status. The ability to read and write was considered essential for …
The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics
Av Karin Barber
Häftad, 2007
487 kr
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What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this …
The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics
Av Karin Barber
Inbunden, 2007
1123 kr
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What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this …
Much Matter in a Penny Paper
Early Yoruba Print Culture in Lagos, 1910–1930
Av Karin Barber
Inbunden, 2026
1334 kr
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A groundbreaking study of Yoruba-language print culture in colonial LagosMuch Matter in a Penny Paper offers the first in-depth exploration of the emergence of an African-language print culture in early twentieth-century Lagos, Nigeria. Focusing on the 1910s and 1920s-a period of rapid …
Much Matter in a Penny Paper
Early Yoruba Print Culture in Lagos, 1910–1930
Av Karin Barber
Häftad, 2026
411 kr
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A groundbreaking study of Yoruba-language print culture in colonial LagosMuch Matter in a Penny Paper offers the first in-depth exploration of the emergence of an African-language print culture in early twentieth-century Lagos, Nigeria. Focusing on the 1910s and 1920s-a period of rapid …
West African Popular Theatre
Av Karin Barber, John Collins m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
370 kr
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This text provides a view from below on the new forms of theatre in West Africa. Throughout, the voices of the theatre practitioners are heard, reminiscing, explaining, philosophizing and grumbling. Their personalities come across vividly, and their views play a vital role.North America: Indiana …
African Literature in Transition: Volume 3
Print Cultures and African Literature, 1860-1960
Av Karin Barber, Stephanie Newell
E-bok, 2025
1781 kr
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African Literature in Transition: Volume 3
Print Cultures and African Literature, 1860-1960
Av Karin Barber, Stephanie Newell
E-bok, 2025
1781 kr
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African Literature in Transition: Volume 3
Print Cultures and African Literature, 1860-1960
Av Stephanie Newell, Karin Barber
Inbunden, 2025
1797 kr
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This book offers a compelling vision of the dynamism of local printing presses across colonial Africa and the new textual forms they generated. It invites a reconceptualisation of African literature as a field by revealing the profusion of local, innovative textual production that surrounded and …
A History of African Popular Culture
Av Karin Barber
Inbunden, 2018
1312 kr
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Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the …
A History of African Popular Culture
Av Karin Barber
Häftad, 2018
435 kr
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Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the …
History of African Popular Culture
Av Karin Barber
E-bok, 2018
411 kr
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Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the …
History of African Popular Culture
Av Karin Barber
E-bok, 2018
420 kr
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Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the …
Reading from the South
African Print Cultures and Oceanic Turns in Isabel Hofmeyr's Work
Av Charne Lavery, Sarah Nuttall m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
281 kr
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This book covers concepts and methods from the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, a leading South African scholar of print cultures and intellectual trajectories in the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
Reading from the South
African Print Cultures and Oceanic Turns in Isabel Hofmeyr's Work
Av Charne Lavery, Sarah Nuttall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1488 kr
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This set of essays analyses the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, globally recognised as one of South Africa's foremost literary and Indian Ocean scholars. The essays elucidate Hofmeyr's path-breaking studies of transnational histories of the book, African print cultures, and cultural circulations in the …
Introduction to Reading from the South
African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s work
Av Lakshmi Subramanian, Meg Samuelson m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
183 kr
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Isabel Hofmeyr is one of the world’s leading scholars on African print cultures, postcolonial literary histories, Indian Ocean studies and the oceanic humanities. For four decades and counting, her work has produced profound conceptual innovations from the global South and for the world at large. …
Introduction to Reading from the South
African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s work
Av Lakshmi Subramanian, Meg Samuelson m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
185 kr
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Isabel Hofmeyr is one of the world’s leading scholars on African print cultures, postcolonial literary histories, Indian Ocean studies and the oceanic humanities. For four decades and counting, her work has produced profound conceptual innovations from the global South and for the world at large. …
Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel
I.B. Thomas's 'Life Story of Me, Segilola' and other texts
Av Karin Barber
Häftad, 2012
1929 kr
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First appearing as a series of letters to a local newspaper, “The Life Story of Me, Segilola” caused a sensation in Lagos in the late 1920s. The lifelike autobiography of a repentant courtesan, it regaled the reader with risqué escapades, pious moralising and vivid evocations of urban popular …
