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Informationen zum Autor edited by Karin Barber Klappentext Karin Barber is Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. She is author of The Generation of Plays (IUP, 2000), which won the Herskovits Award, and editor of Readings in African Popular Culture (IUP, 1997). Zusammenfassung Colonial Africa saw an explosion of writing and printing. This book considers the profusion of literary culture, the propensity to collect and archive text, and the significance attached to reading as a form of self-improvement. It also explores the innovative, intense, and sociable interest in reading and writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Hidden Innovators in AfricaKarin Barber Part 1. Diaries, Letters, and the Constitution of the Self 1. "My Own Life": A. K. Boakye Yiadom's Autobiography¿The Writing and Subjectivity of a Ghanaian Teacher-CatechistStephan F. Miescher 2. "What is our intelligence, our school going and our reading of books without getting money?" Akinpelu Obisesan and His DiaryRuth Watson 3. The Letters of Louisa MvemveCatherine Burns 4. Ekukhanyeni Letter-Writers: A Historical Inquiry into Epistolary Network(s) and Political Imagination in Kwazulu-Natal, South AfricaVukile Khumalo 5. Reasons for Writing: African Working-Class Letter-Writing in Early-Twentieth-Century South AfricaKeith Breckenridge 6. Keeping a Diary of Visions: Lazarus Phelalasekhaya Maphumulo and the Edendale Congregation of AmaNazarethaLiz Gunner 7. Schoolgirl Pregnancies, Letter-Writing, and "Modern" Persons in Late Colonial East AfricaLynn M. Thomas Part 2. Reading Cultures, Publics, and the Press 8. Entering the Territory of Elites: Literary Activity in Colonial GhanaStephanie Newell 9. The Bantu World and the World of the Book: Reading, Writing, and "Enlightenment"Bhekizizwe Peterson 10. Reading Debating/Debating Reading: The Case of the Lovedale Literary Society, or Why Mandela Quotes ShakespeareIsabel Hofmeyr 11. "The present battle is the brain battle": Writing and Publishing a Kikuyu Newspaper in the Pre¿Mau Mau Period in KenyaBodil Folke Frederiksen 12. Public but Private: A Transformational Reading of the Memoirs and Newspaper Writings of Mercy Ffoulkes-CrabbeAudrey Gadzekpo Part 3. Innovation, Cultural Editing, and the Emergence of New Genres 13. Writing, Reading, and Printing Death: Obituaries and Commemoration in Colonial AsanteT. C. McCaskie 14. Writing, Genre, and a Schoolmaster's Inventions in the Yoruba ProvincesKarin Barber 15. Innovation and Persistence: Literary Circles, New Opportunities, and Continuing Debates in Hausa Literary ProductionGraham Furniss List of Contributors Index ...
