Description: Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa by Kwaku Korang This book makes Africa the centerpiece of an intercultural investigation of modern colonial power and its resistance, focusing on the writings of Ghanaian intellectuals. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book makes Africa the centerpiece of an intercultural investigation of modern colonial power and its resistance, focusing on the writings of Ghanaian intellectuals.Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa changes dominant ideas about Africas relations with modernity and the global history of nationalism by recovering, and bringing fresh interpretations to, a modern genealogy of African nationalist theory. Author Kwaku Larbi Korang examines the writing of intellectuals from preindependence Ghana from the latter half of the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, writers who operated self-consciously in a Pan-African ideological framework. By confronting the concept of "the African Nation" under the colonial order, Korang contends that these writer-intellectuals were also confronting modernity in ways that would be important to the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.Through its affiliation with recent revisionary works that have demonstrated the conceptual and existential validity of "alternative modernities," the volume shifts our understanding of the modern from a securely and exclusively Western mode of being to the modern as relational and inclusively intercultural. It mobilizes this relational and intercultural conception to locate and outline "African modernity."Additionally,Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa demonstrates why and how projections of, and debates about, "African modernity" have been more than a continental affair. Korang comprehensively relates the thought of African Americans (Martin Delany, Alexander Crummell, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Wright), and West Indians (George Padmore, C.L.R. James), to that of seminal anglophone West African thinkers like E. W. Blyden, Africanus Horton, J. E. Casely Hayford, and Kwame Nkrumah.Kwaku Larbi Korang is associate professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Ohio State University. Review Writing Ghana is an elegantly written and meticulously researched history of intellectual self-assertion in colonial West Africa . . . This book is an impressive and major addition to existing research on elite culture in nineteenth-century West Africa. It has relevance for scholars of colonial and also postcolonial African literatures, for Korang produces a fresh view of modernity and nationalism. Spring 2006 * RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES, * Review Text Writing Ghana is an elegantly written and meticulously researched history of intellectual self-assertion in colonial West Africa . . . This book is an impressive and major addition to existing research on elite culture in nineteenth-century West Africa. It has relevance for scholars of colonial and also postcolonial African literatures, for Korang produces a fresh view of modernity and nationalism. RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES, Spring 2006 Review Quote Writing Ghana is an elegantly written and meticulously researched history of intellectual self-assertion in colonial West Africa . . . This book is an impressive and major addition to existing research on elite culture in nineteenth-century West Africa. It has relevance for scholars of colonial and also postcolonial African literatures, for Korang produces a fresh view of modernity and nationalism. Spring 2006 Details ISBN1580463169 Short Title WRITING GHANA IMAGINING AFRICA Series Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Language English ISBN-10 1580463169 ISBN-13 9781580463164 Media Book Format Paperback Series Number 16 Year 2009 Imprint University of Rochester Press Subtitle Nation and African Modernity Place of Publication Rochester Country of Publication United States DEWEY 820.99667 Illustrations No AU Release Date 2009-01-02 NZ Release Date 2009-01-02 US Release Date 2009-01-02 UK Release Date 2009-01-02 Author Kwaku Korang Pages 361 Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd Publication Date 2009-01-02 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Alternative 9781580466257 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161849673;
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ISBN-13: 9781580463164
Book Title: Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Publication Year: 2009
Subject: Social Sciences, History
Item Height: 229 mm
Number of Pages: 361 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa: Nation and African Modernity
Type: Textbook
Author: Kwaku Korang
Item Width: 152 mm
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