Text and Context: Anglophone Literary Production in Ghana since 1945

The aim of this article is to show to what extent the context of production of West African literature in English, meaning the way literary works are written, published, distributed and read, necessarily calls in question a number of presuppositions concerning the distinction between so-called ‘popu...

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description The aim of this article is to show to what extent the context of production of West African literature in English, meaning the way literary works are written, published, distributed and read, necessarily calls in question a number of presuppositions concerning the distinction between so-called ‘popular’ or locally produced writing and the texts of internationally published authors (for example, Ayi Kwei Armah) whose works alone are seen as representative of what passes in the West for ‘African literature’.
author Whyte, Philip
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Text and Context: Anglophone Literary Production in Ghana since 1945
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title Text and Context: Anglophone Literary Production in Ghana since 1945
title_short Text and Context: Anglophone Literary Production in Ghana since 1945
title_full Text and Context: Anglophone Literary Production in Ghana since 1945
title_fullStr Text and Context: Anglophone Literary Production in Ghana since 1945
title_full_unstemmed Text and Context: Anglophone Literary Production in Ghana since 1945
title_sort text and context: anglophone literary production in ghana since 1945
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