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Ghanaian Popular Fiction

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Author : Stephanie Newell
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2000

Ghanaian Popular Fiction written by Stephanie Newell and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.

This is a study of the 'unofficial' side of African fiction--the largely undocumented writing, publishing, and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks--which exists outside the grid of mass production. Stephanie Newell examines the popular fiction of Ghana produced since the 1930s, analyzing the distinctive ways in which narrative forms are borrowed and regenerated by authors and readers. Familiar narratives from local and international literary sources are endowed with new meanings and relevance, bearing little relation to the metropolitan "centers" in which the sources originated. The exploration of gender relations is a dominant theme in the novels through which the authors express, mediate, and often resolve commonly held preoccupations about marriage, manhood, and money. As well as filling a gap in Ghana's literary history, the book explores comparative cross-cultural perspectives.

Marita Or The Folly Of Love

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Author : Stephanie Newell
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-07-26

Marita Or The Folly Of Love written by Stephanie Newell and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-26 with History categories.

On 20th January 1886, the first installment of what is probably the first West African novel in English was published in a Ghanaian newspaper, the Western Echo, by a male author using the pseudonym ‘A. Native’. Preceded by a proud editorial which welcomed the arrival of this ‘work of “local effort”’ by ‘a native gentleman’, Marita: or the Folly of Love was serialised in 40 episodes, ending two years later in January 1888. It describes the disastrous consequences for African men of uniting according to the colonial Marriage Ordinance of 1884: this ordinance enshrined the Christian, Victorian ideal of marriage as a monogamous and lifelong union, and is shown in the story to transform peaceful, well-behaved women into shrews and termagants who are bent upon seizing domestic power from their husbands. The story proved to be so popular and relevant that it survived the closure of the Western Echo in December 1887 and found a new host in the Gold Coast Echo, before disappearing from the press, unfinished, in February 1888.

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

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Author : Ayi Kwei Armah
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann
Release Date : 1988

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born written by Ayi Kwei Armah and has been published by Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Education categories.

A beginners' guide to the fundamentals of the Dru meditation technique, a method for soothing the mind and relaxing the emotions. The programme includes six short guided meditations designed to instill a sense of profound stillness, quieten and calm a stressed mind and reconnect with the important aspects of life. Each nine-minute meditations is based on one of the elements: Earth, Water, Light, Air and Sky.

Literary Culture In Colonial Ghana

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Author : Stephanie Newell
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2002

Literary Culture In Colonial Ghana written by Stephanie Newell and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.

"... a book that will break new ground in African cultural studies.... [it] will appeal not only to literary scholars but also to social historians and cultural anthropologists." --Karin Barber Focusing on the broad educational aims of the colonial administration and missionary societies, Stephanie Newell draws on newspaper archives, early unofficial texts, and popular sources to uncover how Africans used literacy to carve out new cultural, social, and economic spaces for themselves. Newly literate Africans not only shaped literary tastes in colonial Africa but also influenced how and where English was spoken; established standards for representations of gender, identity, and morality; and created networks for African literary production, dissemination, and reception throughout British West Africa. Newell reveals literacy and reading as powerful social forces that quickly moved beyond the missionary agenda and colonial regulation. A fascinating literary, social, and cultural history of colonial Ghana, Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana sheds new light on understandings of the African colonial experience and the development of postcolonial cultures in West Africa.

Ghana Must Go

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Author : Taiye Selasi
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-04-04

Ghana Must Go written by Taiye Selasi and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-04 with Fiction categories.

A stunning novel, spanning generations and continents, Ghana Must Go by rising star Taiye Selasi is a tale of family drama and forgiveness, for fans of Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This is the story of a family -- of the simple, devastating ways in which families tear themselves apart, and of the incredible lengths to which a family will go to put itself back together. It is the story of one family, the Sais, whose good life crumbles in an evening; a Ghanaian father, Kweku Sai, who becomes a highly respected surgeon in the US only to be disillusioned by a grotesque injustice; his Nigerian wife, Fola, the beautiful homemaker abandoned in his wake; their eldest son, Olu, determined to reconstruct the life his father should have had; their twins, seductive Taiwo and acclaimed artist Kehinde, both brilliant but scarred and flailing; their youngest, Sadie, jealously in love with her celebrity best friend. All of them sent reeling on their disparate paths into the world. Until, one day, tragedy spins the Sais in a new direction. This is the story of a family: torn apart by lies, reunited by grief. A family absolved, ultimately, by that bitter but most tenuous bond: familial love. Ghana Must Go interweaves the stories of the Sais in a rich and moving drama of separation and reunion, spanning generations and cultures from West Africa to New England, London, New York and back again. It is a debut novel of blazing originality and startling power by a writer of extraordinary gifts. 'Ghana Must Go is both a fast moving story of one family's fortunes and an ecstatic exploration of the inner lives of its members. With her perfectly-pitched prose and flawless technique, Selasi does more than merely renew our sense of the African novel: she renews our sense of the novel, period. An astonishing debut' Teju Cole, author of Open City Taiye Selasi was born in London and raised in Massachusetts. She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale and an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford. "The Sex Lives of African Girls" (Granta, 2011), Selasi's fiction debut, appears in Best American Short Stories 2012. She lives in Rome.

Fontomfrom

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Author : Kofi Anyidoho
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2000

Fontomfrom written by Kofi Anyidoho and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.

Includes articles, annotated filmography, interviews, creative writing, and book reviews.

Osagyefo

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Author : Linus Tongwo Asong
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2010

Osagyefo written by Linus Tongwo Asong and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.

The personality of the highly charismatic foremost African Nationalist, Kwame Nkrumah as featured once in a while in Ghanaian fiction. For example, the celebrated Ghanaian novelist, Ayi Kwei Armah draws attention to the corrupt nature of the Nkrumah regime in his famous novel, The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born. But this is by far the very first time that Kwame Nkrumah and his era have been made the main subject of a full-length novel.

The Girl Who Can

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Author : Ama Ata Aidoo
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann
Release Date : 2002

The Girl Who Can written by Ama Ata Aidoo and has been published by Heinemann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Fiction in English categories.

In this collection of short stories, Aidoo elevates the mundane in women's lives to an intellectual level in an attempt at challenging patriarchal structures and dominance in African society.

Ghanaian Literatures

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Author : Richard Priebe
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1988-09-02

Ghanaian Literatures written by Richard Priebe and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-09-02 with Social Science categories.

Ghananian Literature is a scholarly and very valuable collection surveying the Ghanian literatures and their critical reception until the present decade. World Literature Today Ghana, one of the smaller countries in Africa, is a linguistically and culturally pluralistic society that has had a disproportionately large impact on the rest of Africa. Although English is the official language, works are also published in vernacular languages. This comprehensive introduction to the literature of Ghana is organized by type of literature--oral art, popular literature, and elite, primarily English-language literature. Some essays appear for the first time; all reflect the wide range of Ghana's creative writing.

Search Sweet Country

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Author : Kojo Laing
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-08-01

Search Sweet Country written by Kojo Laing and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-01 with Fiction categories.

Accra, Ghana, the 1970s. In the streets, marketplaces and crowded houses of this sprawling city, an unforgettable cast of characters live, love and try to get by: an idealistic professor, a beautiful young witch, a wide-eyed student, a corrupt politician, a healer and a man intent on founding his own village. Through their stories, and those of the living, breathing city itself, Kojo Laing's dazzling novel creates a portrait of a place caught between colonialism and freedom, eternity and the present. 'The finest novel written in English ever to come out of the African continent' Binyavanga Wainaina