Publishing the Postcolonial: Anglophone West African and Caribbean Writing in the UK 1948-1968

ISBN-13: 9780415424356 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 200 str.

GAIL LOW

Opis

Explores the impact that the "African Writers Series" had on the development of African writing in English in the 1960's by examining the works of such authors as George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, Wilson Harris, and Derek Walcott. This book takes into account debates in the discipline of book history, publishing histories, and canon formation.

Recenzje

'The primary strength of Low's study comes through her deft handling of a range of varable material, including archival research, primary materials, manuscripts, interviews and correspondance.' - Wasafiri

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1: "The natural artist": Amos Tutuola or Faber and Faber’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard? 2: "Profitable and politically expedient?": Oxford University Press and the Three Crowns Series 1962-76 3: "In pursuit of literary gold": HEB and the African Writers’ Series 1962-67 4: The Pleasures of Exile: Publishing West Indian Writing in Postwar Britain 5: The Magic of Books: Authorship, Cultural and Symbolic Capital Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Gail Low teaches contemporary writing and publishing in English at the University of Dundee. She has co-edited A Black British Canon? and is the author of White Skins/Black Masks: Representation and Colonialism (Routledge, 1996).