Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana: 'how to Play the Game of Life'Manchester University Press, 2002 - 242 pages 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. |
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Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana: 'how to Play the Game of Life' Stephanie Newell Limited preview - 2002 |
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References to this book
Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self Karin Barber No preview available - 2006 |