Readings in African Popular Fiction

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3913416
AutoresRachel R Reynolds (0000-0003-2758-6884), Stephanie Newell (0009-0001-0662-4493)
Ano2002
Volume35
Fascículo2/3
Páginas560
Data de publicação2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3097672
OpenAlexW1535574540
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas58

Intoduction, Stephanie Newell. Part 1 West Africa: Hausa creative writing in the 1930s - an exploration in postcolonial theory, Graham Furniss Indian films and Nigerian lovers - media and the creation of parallel modernities, Brian Larkin primary text 1 - excerpts from soyayya pamphlet Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, Alhaki Kwikiyo(?) Onitsha market literature, Donatus Nwoga the role of the publisher in Onitsha market literature, Don Dodson primary text 2 - extracts from J.C. Anorue, How to Become Rich and Avoid Poverty irregular visitors - narratives about ogbaanje (spirit children) in southern Nigerian popular writing, Misty Bastian Felix Couchoro - pioneer of popular writing in West Africa?, Alain Ricard writing and popular culture in Cameroon, Richard Bjornson the character of popular fiction in Ghana, Ime Ikiddeh. Part 2 East Africa: storylines, spellbinders and heartbeats - decentering the African oral-popular discourse, Raoul Granqvist romances for the office worker - Aubrey Kalitera and Malawi's white-collar reading public, Bernth Lindfors Joe, the sweetest reading in Africa - documentation and discussion of a popular magazine in Kenya, Bodil Folke Frederiksen primary text 3 - facsimiles of cartoons, stories and covers from Joe magazine representations of men and women, city and town in Kenyan novels of the 1970s and 1980s, Nici Nelson primary text 4 - excerpts from Charles Mangua, Son of Woman the Swahili novel and the common man in East Africa, Euphrase Kezilahabi language and ideology in postcolonial Kenyan literature - the case of David Maillu's macronic fiction?, J. Robert Kurtz and Robert M. Kurts primary text 5 - excerpts from Ben R. Mtobwa's Dar es Salaam Usiku (Dar es Salaam by Night). Part 3 Southern Africa: rediscovery of the ordinary, Njabulo Ndebele African popular fiction - consideration of a category?, Michael Chapman the Sophiatown writers of the 50s - the unreal reality of their world, Paul Gready Drum magazine (1951-59) and the spatial configurations of gender, Dorothy Driver primary text 6 -facsimiles of covers, articles and letters from Drum magazine La Guma's Little Libby - the adventures of liberation Chabalala, Roger Field primary text 7 - artwork of Little Libby cartoon strips reading lives, Sarah Nuttall popular crime thrillers by black authors in South Africa, Lindy Stiebel primary text 8 -excerpts from South African crime thriller The Secret in My Bosom, Gomolemo Mokai

Art · Art history · Hausa · Ideology · Kenya · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Popular fiction · Reading (process · Swahili · African history and culture studies · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies