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| Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction: The Relevance of Postcolonial Theories to the Study of West African Popular Literatures | 1 | |
| 1 | The Proverbial Space in Ghanaian Popular Fiction | 9 |
| 2 | Making up their Own Minds | 28 |
| 3 | Ghanaian Readers' Comments on the Role of Authors & the Function of Literature | 45 |
| 4 | 'Pen-pictures' of Readers: The early days of Ghanaian popular fiction | 53 |
| 5 | An Incident of Colonial Intertextuality: The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for Mr. Shaw | 70 |
| 6 | The 'Book Famine' in Postcolonial West Africa | 88 |
| 7 | 'Two Things May be Alike but Never the Same': E. K. Mickson's parodic techniques | 99 |
| 8 | 'Those Mean and Empty-Headed Men': The shifting representations of wealth & women in two Ghanaian popular novels | 118 |
| 9 | 'Reading the Right Sort of Books & Articles': Kate Abbam's Obaa Sima | 135 |
| 10 | Uprising Genres: Akosua Gyamfuaa-Fofie's romantic fiction | 143 |
| Conclusion: Popular Novels & International African Fiction | 152 | |
| Bibliography | 163 | |
| Index | 174 |
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Joshua Moreira
reviewed Ghanaian Popular Fiction: "Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life" and Other Tales on January 30, 2014
Ghanaian Popular Fiction: "Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life" and Other Tales
A controversial work...it is difficult to accept that this great distinguished author (camara Laye) might not really have written a classic like The radiance of the King; then how is it that the African ambience is so convincingly enacted in the work despite the kafkaesque background? Adele King as usual does her research very well - but one is still left with lingering feeling of disbelief; even anguish...
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Add Ghanaian Popular Fiction: "Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life" and Other Tales, This is a study of the 'unofficial' side of African fiction, the largely undocumented writing, publishing and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks, which exist outside the grid of mass-production.--BOOK JACKET., Ghanaian Popular Fiction: "Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life" and Other Tales to your collection on WonderClub |