Ghanaian popular fiction : "thrilling discoveries in conjugal life" & other tales
"This is a study of the 'unofficial' side of African fiction, the largely undocumented writing, publishing and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks, which exist outside the grid of mass-production."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
J. Currey ; Ohio University Press, Oxford [England], Athens, 2000
Aufsatzsammlung
ix, 180 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780821413678, 9780821413685, 9780852555576, 9780852555569, 0821413678, 0821413686, 0852555571, 0852555563
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The relevance of postcolonial theories to the study of West African popular literatures
The proverbial space in Ghanaian popular fiction
Making up their own minds: readers, interpretations & the difference of view
Ghanaian readers' comments on the role of authors & the function of literature
'Pen-pictures' of readers: the early days of Ghanaian popular fiction
An incident of colonial intertextuality: the adventures of the Black girl in her search for Mr. Shaw
The 'Book famine' in post colonial West Africa
'Two things may be alike but never the same': E.K. Mickson's parodic techniques
Those mean and empty-headed men': the shifting representation of wealth and women in two Ghanaian popular novels
'Reading the right sort of books and articles': Kate Abbam's Obaa Sima
Uprising genres: Akosua Gyamfuaa-Fofie's romantic fiction
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Birmingham, England