Africa's hidden histories everyday literacy and making the self
"My own life" : A.K. Boakye Yiadom's autobiography - the writing and subjectivity of a Ghanaian teacher-catechist /Stephan F. Miescher --"What is our intelligence, our school going and our reading of books without getting money?" : Akinpelu Obisesan and his diary /Ruth Watso...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Bloomington, Ind. u.a.
Indiana University Press
2006
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| Schriftenreihe: | African expressive cultures
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "My own life" : A.K. Boakye Yiadom's autobiography - the writing and subjectivity of a Ghanaian teacher-catechist /Stephan F. Miescher --"What is our intelligence, our school going and our reading of books without getting money?" : Akinpelu Obisesan and his diary /Ruth Watson --The letters of Louisa Mvemve /Catherine Burns --Ekukhanyeni letter-writers : a historical inquiry into epistolary network(s) and political imagination in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa /Vukile Khumalo --Reasons for writing : African working-class letter-writing in early-twentieth-century South Africa /Keith Breckenridge --Keeping a diary of visions : Lazarus Phelalasekhaya Maphumulo and the Edendale congregation of AmaNazaretha /Liz Gunner --Schoolgirl pregnancies, letter-writing, and "modern" persons in late colonial East Africa /Lynn M. Thomas --Entering the territory of elites : literary activity in colonial Ghana /Stephanie Newell --The Bantu world and the world of the book : reading, writing, and "enlightenment" /Bhekizizwe Peterson --Reading debating/debating reading : the case of the Lovedale Literary Society, or why Mandela quotes Shakespeare /Isabel Hofmeyr --"Thepresent battle is the brain battle" : writing and publishing a Kikuyu newspaper in the pre-Mau Mau period in Kenya /Bodil Folke Frederiksen --Public but private : a transformational reading of the memoirs and newspaper writings of Mercy Ffoulkes-Crabbe /Audrey Gadzekpo --Writing, reading, and printing death : obituaries and commemoration in Asante /T.C. McCaskie --Writing, genre, and a schoolmaster's inventions in the Yoruba provinces /Karin Barber --Innovation and persistence : literary circles, new opportunities, and continuing debates in Hausa literary production /Graham Furniss. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben |
| Beschreibung: | X, 451 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0253218438 0-253-21843-8 0253347297 0-253-34729-7 9780253218438 978-0-253-21843-8 |