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Ghanaian Popular Fiction 'Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life' and Other Tales

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ISBN-10: 0821413686

ISBN-13: 9780821413685

Edition: 2001

Authors: Stephanie Newell

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The unofficial side of African fiction has captured Newell's (African studies, U. of Cambridge.) interest, the largely undocumented writing, publishing, and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks that exist outside the grid of mass production. She describes how authors in Ghana combine quotes from western texts with a vast array of local narrative sources, so that their plots, genres, and protagonists are drawn from a jamboree bag in which the foreign cannot be separated from the local. c. Book News Inc.
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Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 1/31/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 16.00" wide x 24.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Stephanie Newell is Smuts Memorial Research Fellow in African Studies at the University of Cambridge. She is author of Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana (just approved for IUP co-pub with Manchester UP), Ghanaian Popular Fiction (Currey; Ohio, 2000), and editor of Images of African and Caribbean Women: Migration, Displacement, Diaspora (Centre for Commonwealth Studies, 1996), Images of African Women: The Gender Problematic (Centre for Commonweatlh Studies, 1995), and Writing African Women: Gender, Popular Culture, and Literature in West Africa (Zed Books, 1997).

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Relevance of Postcolonial Theories to the Study of West African Popular Literatures
The Proverbial Space in Ghanaian Popular Fiction
Making up their Own Minds: Readers, interpretations and the difference of view
Ghanaian Readers' Comments on the Role of Authors and the Function of Literature
'Pen-pictures' of Readers: The early days of Ghanaian 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 Ghanaian 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
Bibliography
Index