Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s - 1960s

Groundbreaking examination of literary production in West African newspapers and local printing presses in the first half of the 20th century, which adds an African perspective to transatlantic Black studies, and shows how African newsprint creativity has shaped readers' ways of imagining subje...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newell, Stephanie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 2023.
Colección:African Articulations Series.
Temas:
Newspaper publishing > Africa, West.
Printing industry > Africa, West.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Note on Spelling
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Anglo-Scribes and Anglo-Literates in West African Newspaper History
  • 2. The Time of Letters: Epistolarity and Nigerian Newsprint Cultures
  • 3. 'Shameless Thefts' vs Local Literatures: Dusé Mohamed Ali's Comet
  • 4. Onitsha Pamphlets: Youth Literature for the Modern World
  • 5. The Work of Repetition in Nigerian Epistolary Pamphlets
  • 6. English Romantic Discourse: Women vs Men
  • 7. Female Critical Communities in Nigerian Pamphlet Literature: 'Beware of Women'
  • 8. Writing Time: African Cold War Aesthetics and Nigerian Political Dramas of the 1960s
  • 9. Romances from the Nigerian Civil War: Veronica's End
  • Conclusion: Local Aesthetics
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • African Articulations previous volumes

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