Asha Rogers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3981120 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asha Rogers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asha |
| FAMILY NAME | Rogers |
| SIGNATURE | ROGERS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lecturer in Contemporary Postcolonial Literature, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0878-9603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1907 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Preventing ‘World Literature’
Creative writing authored and published in African languages has been positioned out of the line of sight of world literary studies and prevented from exerting an active presence in literary systems beyond its own. This article addresses why through a highly focused and detailed “biography” of the first published Igbo language novel Omenuko , which appeared in book form in 1935 and in English translation in 2014. It demonstrates how African langu…
State Sponsored Literature
Debates about the value of the 'literary' rarely register the expressive acts of state subsidy, sponsorship, and cultural policy that have shaped post-war Britain. In State Sponsored Literature, Asha Rogers argues that the modern state was a major material condition of literature, even as its efforts were relative, partial, and prone to disruption. Drawing from neglected and occasionally unexpected archives, she shows how the state became an inte…
The Global Histories of Books
Black Orpheus and the African Magazines of the Congress for Cultural Freedom
This chapter discusses how the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CFF) entered the cultural field of sub-Saharan Africa in the period of decolonisation, focusing on its sponsorship of the periodicals Black Orpheus in Nigeria and Transition in Uganda. Unlike other CCF journals, the African magazines were well-established, though under-resourced, before they came to the attention of the Congress. This chapter charts the advent of the CCF’s role as a fu…
The Pearl-Strings; A History of the Resuliyy Dynasty of Yemen
Subtitle varies: v.2-3, translation and text with annotations and index; v.4-5, the Arabic text edited by Shaykh Muḥammad ʻAsal ( the maps and tables of Muhammadan dynasties by Sir J. Redhouse, have been suppressed; the index to the translation is in v.2, the indices to the text by R. A. Nicholson, in v.5; the annotations in v.3
State Sponsored Literature
Debates about the value of the 'literary' rarely register the expressive acts of state subsidy, sponsorship, and cultural policy that have shaped post-war Britain. In State Sponsored Literature, Asha Rogers argues that the modern state was a major material condition of literature, even as its efforts were relative, partial, and prone to disruption. Drawing from neglected and occasionally unexpected archives, she shows how the state became an inte…
The Pearl-Strings; A History of the Resuliyy Dynasty of Yemen
Subtitle varies: v.2-3, translation and text with annotations and index; v.4-5, the Arabic text edited by Shaykh Muḥammad ʻAsal ( the maps and tables of Muhammadan dynasties by Sir J. Redhouse, have been suppressed; the index to the translation is in v.2, the indices to the text by R. A. Nicholson, in v.5; the annotations in v.3
The Global Histories of Books
Black Orpheus and the African Magazines of the Congress for Cultural Freedom
This chapter discusses how the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CFF) entered the cultural field of sub-Saharan Africa in the period of decolonisation, focusing on its sponsorship of the periodicals Black Orpheus in Nigeria and Transition in Uganda. Unlike other CCF journals, the African magazines were well-established, though under-resourced, before they came to the attention of the Congress. This chapter charts the advent of the CCF’s role as a fu…
State Sponsored Literature
Debates about the value of the 'literary' rarely register the expressive acts of state subsidy, sponsorship, and cultural policy that have shaped post-war Britain. In State Sponsored Literature, Asha Rogers argues that the modern state was a major material condition of literature, even as its efforts were relative, partial, and prone to disruption. Drawing from neglected and occasionally unexpected archives, she shows how the state became an inte…
Preventing ‘World Literature’
Creative writing authored and published in African languages has been positioned out of the line of sight of world literary studies and prevented from exerting an active presence in literary systems beyond its own. This article addresses why through a highly focused and detailed “biography” of the first published Igbo language novel Omenuko , which appeared in book form in 1935 and in English translation in 2014. It demonstrates how African langu…
History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (1 works)