Ghanaian Popular Fiction 'Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life' and Other Tales
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Biographical note
Stephanie Newell is George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University. Her works include Histories of Dirt in West Africa: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos (2020) and The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa (2013), finalist for the ASA Best Book Prize 2014.Fascinating ... Like most good critical works, it kindles interest in its subject, and for this alone Ghanaian Popular Fiction deserves praise. More than that, it is a perceptive study which has made a significant advance in its field
- James Copnall, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
This is an intriguing examination of Ghana's popular fiction stretching back to the 1930s.
- Guy Arnold, WEST AFRICA
... this superb detailed study...
- Gareth Griffiths, ARAS
Stephanie Newell breaks new conceptual and analytic ground in this first book-length study of the English language popular literary expression and production in Ghana... Newell's Ghanaian Popular Fiction is the definitive book-length work on West African popular literary expression that we have long been waiting for. Its nuanced theorization and analytic multi-dimensionality should stimulate fresh departures from know-it-all theoretical orthodoxy and open new lines of research into what really is going on culturally within the postcolonial contact zone.
- Kwaku Larbi Korang, INTERVENTIONS