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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953311203321

Autore

Davis Caroline <1964->

Titolo

Creating Postcolonial Literature : African Writers and British Publishers / / by C. Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013

ISBN

9781349350513

1349350516

9781137328380

113732838X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/96

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature

Literature - Philosophy

Culture - Study and teaching

Africa - History

African literature

Twentieth-Century Literature

World Literature

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

African History

African Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Oxford University Press in Africa, 1927-1980 -- The vision for OUP in Africa -- 'The obligation to be profitable': OUP in West Africa -- 'The call to duty': OUP in East Africa -- Publishing under Apartheid: OUP in South Africa -- The Three Crowns Series 1962-1976 -- The history of Three Crowns -- Judging African literature -- Editing Three Crowns -- Publishing Wole Soyinka -- Publishing Athol Fugard.

Sommario/riassunto

Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African



literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between African writers and British publishers, and importance of the African market. It analyses the historical, political and economic conditions framing the emergence of postcolonial literature.