Scripting Empire - Broadcasting, the Bbc, and the Black Atlantic

A volume on the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC. The volume covers over 40 different radio programmes which appeared within the 'Calling West Africa' and 'Calling West Indies' schedules between 1941 and 1965 and brings together a wide range of uncatalogued archive materials.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Lyric


• 2: Voice


• 3: Echo


• 4: The Short Space


• 5: Local Colour


• Postscript

About the author

James Procter is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University. He is the author of Dwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing (2003), Stuart Hall (2004), co-editor of Reading Across Worlds (2015), Out of Bounds: British Black and Asian Poets (2012), and Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception (2013), as well as numerous articles and chapters in leading postcolonial journals and book collections. His current research interests are in radio literature and empire between the 1930s and late 1960s, a project for which he was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2013-14.

Summary

A volume on the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC. The volume covers over 40 different radio programmes which appeared within the 'Calling West Africa' and 'Calling West Indies' schedules between 1941 and 1965 and brings together a wide range of uncatalogued archive materials.

Additional text

Scripting Empire tunes in astutely to an unexplored frequency of broadcasting and literary history to make for essential reading for students of the BBC and the Black Atlantic.

Product details

• Authors: James Procter, James (Professor of Modern and Contempora Procter, Procter James
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.2023
• EAN: 9780198894179
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889417-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, PERFORMING ARTS / Radio / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, West Africa, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Radio plays, scripts and performances, Radio scripts, West Indies, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form