Africa's hidden histories : everyday literacy and making the self
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| Formato: | Ouvrage |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
| Colecção: | African expressive cultures.
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| Acesso em linha: | Table of contents |
Sumário:
- Introduction : hidden innovators in Africa / Karin Barber
- "My own life" : A. K. Boakye Yiadom's autobiography - the writing an 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
- "The present 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 memories 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.