Ghanaian popular fiction : "thrilling discoveries in conjugal life" & other tales

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Ghanaian popular fiction : "thrilling discoveries in conjugal life" & other tales

Stephanie Newell

（Western African studies）

J. Currey , Ohio University Press, 2000

  • : J. Currey : cloth
  • : J. Currey : paper
  • : Ohio University Press : cloth
  • : Ohio University Press : paper

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Based on the author's dissertation (Ph.D., University of Birmingham, England)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-173) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: J. Currey : paper ISBN 9780852555569

内容説明

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

目次

  • Introduction - the relevance of postcolonial theories to the study of West African popular literatures
  • the proverbial space in Ghanian popular literatures
  • "making up their own minds" -readers, interpretations and the difference of view
  • Ghanian readers' comments on the role of authors and the function of literature
  • "pen-pictures" of readers - the early days of Ghanian popular fiction
  • an incident of colonial intertextuality - the adventures of the black girl in her search for Mr Shaw
  • the "book famine" in postcolonial West Africa
  • "two things may be alike but never the same" - E.K. Mickson's parodic techniques
  • "those mean and empty-headed men" - the shifting representations of wealth and women in two Ghanian popular novels
  • "reading the right sort of books and articles" - Kate Abbam's Obaa Sima
  • uprising genres -Akosua Gyamfuaa-Fofie's romantic fiction
  • conclusion - popular novels and international African fiction.
巻冊次

: J. Currey : cloth ISBN 9780852555576

内容説明

This is a study of the unofficial side of African fiction: the undocumented writing, publishing and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks which exist outside of mainstream mass-production. Gender relations are a dominant theme inthe stories which explore and symbolically resolve commonly held pre-occupations about marriage, money and manhood.

目次

  • Introduction - the relevance of postcolonial theories to the study of West African popular literatures
  • the proverbial space in Ghanian popular literatures
  • "making up their own minds" -readers, interpretations and the difference of view
  • Ghanian readers' comments on the role of authors and the function of literature
  • "pen-pictures" of readers - the early days of Ghanian popular fiction
  • an incident of colonial intertextuality - the adventures of the black girl in her search for Mr Shaw
  • the "book famine" in postcolonial West Africa
  • "two things may be alike but never the same" - E.K. Mickson's parodic techniques
  • "those mean and empty-headed men" - the shifting representations of wealth and women in two Ghanian popular novels
  • "reading the right sort of books and articles" - Kate Abbam's Obaa Sima
  • uprising genres -Akosua Gyamfuaa-Fofie's romantic fiction
  • conclusion - popular novels and international African fiction.

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