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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung History |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Karin Barber |
| ISBN: | 0253347297 9780253347299 0253218438 9780253218438 |
| OCLC Number: | 62136788 |
| Description: | x, 451 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | "My own life" : A.K. Boakye Yiadom's autobiography -- the writing and subjectivity of a Ghanaian teacher-catechist / Stephan F. Miescher -- "What is our intelligence, our school going and our reading of books without getting money?" : Akinpelu Obisesan and his diary / Ruth Watson -- The letters of Louisa Mvemve / Catherine Burns -- Ekukhanyeni letter-writers : a historical inquiry into epistolary network(s) and political imagination in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa / Vukile Khumalo -- Reasons for writing : African working-class letter-writing in early-twentieth-century South Africa / Keith Breckenridge -- Keeping a diary of visions : Lazarus Phelalasekhaya Maphumulo and the Edendale congregation of AmaNazaretha / Liz Gunner -- Schoolgirl pregnancies, letter-writing, and "modern" persons in late colonial East Africa / Lynn M. Thomas -- Entering the territory of elites : literary activity in colonial Ghana / Stephanie Newell -- The Bantu world and the world of the book : reading, writing, and "enlightenment" / Bhekizizwe Peterson -- Reading debating/debating reading : the case of the Lovedale Literary Society, or why Mandela quotes Shakespeare / Isabel Hofmeyr -- "The present battle is the brain battle" : writing and publishing a Kikuyu newspaper in the pre-Mau Mau period in Kenya / Bodil Folke Frederiksen -- Public but private : a transformational reading of the memoirs and newspaper writings of Mercy Ffoulkes-Crabbe / Audrey Gadzekpo -- Writing, reading, and printing death : obituaries and commemoration in Asante / T.C. McCaskie -- Writing, genre, and a schoolmaster's inventions in the Yoruba provinces / Karin Barber -- Innovation and persistence : literary circles, new opportunities, and continuing debates in Hausa literary production / Graham Furniss. |
| Series Title: | African expressive cultures. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Karin Barber. |
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. . . the authors - remarkably - have made a long and tortuous story short and simple without smothering the complexities. Their grasp of the various intellectual themes is impressive, so is their even-handedness. The book should be prized among African Studies collections.Feb. 3, 2009 -- Walter Gam Nkwi * University of Buea, Cameroon * Comprising an insightful introduction and fifteen richly textured essays, Africa's Hidden Histories is an important contribution to standing research on a range of topics in twentieth-century African studies. Literary scholars, educationists, and social, political, and intellectual historians will draw particular benefit and pleasure from the unhurried, penetrating studies-incorporating an abundance of engrossing illustrations and photographs-that mark the volume's status as a major archival and theoretical project. * African Studies Review * This is on many levels an exceptionally engaging book. . . . Africa's everyday writers can have no better introduction to the scholarly world than Karin Barber's exciting book. This is a volume that should command wide readership.Vol. 14. 3 Sept. 2008 -- Derek R. Peterson * Selwyn College, University Cambridge * Read more...
