Ghanaian Popular Fiction
'Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life' and Other Tales
Format:Paperback
Publisher:James Currey
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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
Fascinating ... Like most good critical works, it kindles interest in its subject, and for this alone Ghanaian Popular Fiction deserves praise. More than that, it is a perceptive study which has made a significant advance in its field -- James Copnall * THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *
This is an intriguing examination of Ghana's popular fiction stretching back to the 1930s. -- Guy Arnold * WEST AFRICA *
... this superb detailed study... -- Gareth Griffiths * ARAS *
Stephanie Newell breaks new conceptual and analytic ground in this first book-length study of the English language popular literary expression and production in Ghana... Newell's Ghanaian Popular Fiction is the definitive book-length work on West African popular literary expression that we have long been waiting for. Its nuanced theorization and analytic multi-dimensionality should stimulate fresh departures from know-it-all theoretical orthodoxy and open new lines of research into what really is going on culturally within the postcolonial contact zone. -- Kwaku Larbi Korang * INTERVENTIONS *
ISBN: 9780852555569
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 296g
192 pages