Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana write by Stephanie Newell. This book was released on 2002. Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Considering the literary habits - production, reception, selection - in a colonial Ghana, this study provides empirical and statistical data of how colonial literature is absorbed - and coins the new term paracolonial to better describe the ebb and flow of influence and creativity. It shows how colonial West Africa (the Gold Coast) adapted to an imposed education system and developed its own indigenous cultural representation, far beyond the previously conceived limited vocabularly of simple mimicry.
Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana
Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana write by Stephanie Newell. This book was released on 2002-08-30. Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ". . . 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.
Ghanaian Popular Fiction
Ghanaian Popular Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ghanaian Popular Fiction write by Stephanie Newell. This book was released on 2000. Ghanaian Popular Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a study of the 'unofficial' side of African fiction--the largely undocumented writing, publishing, and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks--which exists outside the grid of mass production. Stephanie Newell examines the popular fiction of Ghana produced since the 1930s, analyzing the distinctive ways in which narrative forms are borrowed and regenerated by authors and readers. Familiar narratives from local and international literary sources are endowed with new meanings and relevance, bearing little relation to the metropolitan "centers" in which the sources originated. The exploration of gender relations is a dominant theme in the novels through which the authors express, mediate, and often resolve commonly held preoccupations about marriage, manhood, and money. As well as filling a gap in Ghana's literary history, the book explores comparative cross-cultural perspectives.
Marita: or the Folly of Love
Marita: or the Folly of Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marita: or the Folly of Love write by Stephanie Newell. This book was released on 2021-07-26. Marita: or the Folly of Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On 20th January 1886, the first installment of what is probably the first West African novel in English was published in a Ghanaian newspaper, the Western Echo, by a male author using the pseudonym ‘A. Native’. Preceded by a proud editorial which welcomed the arrival of this ‘work of “local effort”’ by ‘a native gentleman’, Marita: or the Folly of Love was serialised in 40 episodes, ending two years later in January 1888. It describes the disastrous consequences for African men of uniting according to the colonial Marriage Ordinance of 1884: this ordinance enshrined the Christian, Victorian ideal of marriage as a monogamous and lifelong union, and is shown in the story to transform peaceful, well-behaved women into shrews and termagants who are bent upon seizing domestic power from their husbands. The story proved to be so popular and relevant that it survived the closure of the Western Echo in December 1887 and found a new host in the Gold Coast Echo, before disappearing from the press, unfinished, in February 1888.
The Power to Name
The Power to Name - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Power to Name write by Stephanie Newell. This book was released on 2013-07-15. The Power to Name available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between the 1880s and the 1940s, the region known as British West Africa became a dynamic zone of literary creativity and textual experimentation. African-owned newspapers offered local writers numerous opportunities to contribute material for publication, and editors repeatedly defined the press as a vehicle to host public debates rather than simply as an organ to disseminate news or editorial ideology. Literate locals responded with great zeal, and in increasing numbers as the twentieth century progressed, they sent in letters, articles, fiction, and poetry for publication in English- and African-language newspapers. The Power to Name offers a rich cultural history of this phenomenon, examining the wide array of anonymous and pseudonymous writing practices to be found in African-owned newspapers between the 1880s and the 1940s, and the rise of celebrity journalism in the period of anticolonial nationalism. Stephanie Newell has produced an account of colonial West Africa that skillfully shows the ways in which colonized subjects used pseudonyms and anonymity to alter and play with colonial power and constructions of African identity.
