Nana Wilson‐tagoe
Biographic Data
| ID | 139152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nana Wilson‐tagoe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nana |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson‐tagoe |
| SIGNATURE | TAGOE N W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The University in Africa
The Politics of History and the Vernacular in Early Twentieth-Century Ghana
The paper's main argument is that texts do not have exclusively specific textual origins but are produced within historical conditions and linked to a variety of other texts within the broad spectrum of literary history. In retrieving and re-positioning Gaddiel Acquaah's historical poem of 1930 in Ghanaian literary history, it explores the impact of social and political contexts on its production and examines its intertextual links with contempor…
Literary prizes and the creation of literary culture
Ama Ata Aidoo in conversation
Historical Thought and Literary Representation in West Indian Literature
Narrative, history, novel
To have or not to have a history is a major anxiety in all areas of contemporary thought in Africa. History was the locus of difference that separated civilized from uncivilized in European perceptions of Others. Anxieties about history are thus anxieties about the meaning of history and the mode of its appropriation or representation. The African writer's conscious conflation of written narrative and indigenous oral forms are often ways of exper…
Literature and history
1999). Literature and history: introduction. Journal of African Cultural Studies: Vol. 12, Literature and history, pp. 117-119
Selected themes in West Indian literature
(1987). Selected themes in West Indian literature: An annotated bibliography. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 921-960
Narrative, history, novel
To have or not to have a history is a major anxiety in all areas of contemporary thought in Africa. History was the locus of difference that separated civilized from uncivilized in European perceptions of Others. Anxieties about history are thus anxieties about the meaning of history and the mode of its appropriation or representation. The African writer's conscious conflation of written narrative and indigenous oral forms are often ways of exper…
The Politics of History and the Vernacular in Early Twentieth-Century Ghana
The paper's main argument is that texts do not have exclusively specific textual origins but are produced within historical conditions and linked to a variety of other texts within the broad spectrum of literary history. In retrieving and re-positioning Gaddiel Acquaah's historical poem of 1930 in Ghanaian literary history, it explores the impact of social and political contexts on its production and examines its intertextual links with contempor…
Literary prizes and the creation of literary culture
Selected themes in West Indian literature
(1987). Selected themes in West Indian literature: An annotated bibliography. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 921-960
Narrative, history, novel
To have or not to have a history is a major anxiety in all areas of contemporary thought in Africa. History was the locus of difference that separated civilized from uncivilized in European perceptions of Others. Anxieties about history are thus anxieties about the meaning of history and the mode of its appropriation or representation. The African writer's conscious conflation of written narrative and indigenous oral forms are often ways of exper…
Literature and history
1999). Literature and history: introduction. Journal of African Cultural Studies: Vol. 12, Literature and history, pp. 117-119
Historical Thought and Literary Representation in West Indian Literature
Ama Ata Aidoo in conversation
Literary prizes and the creation of literary culture
The Politics of History and the Vernacular in Early Twentieth-Century Ghana
The paper's main argument is that texts do not have exclusively specific textual origins but are produced within historical conditions and linked to a variety of other texts within the broad spectrum of literary history. In retrieving and re-positioning Gaddiel Acquaah's historical poem of 1930 in Ghanaian literary history, it explores the impact of social and political contexts on its production and examines its intertextual links with contempor…
The University in Africa
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