Ghanaian popular fiction

Stephanie Newell

Ghanaian Popular Fiction

'Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life'

& other tales

180 pages

James Currey

Oxford, U.K., 2000

ISBN : 0-85255-557-1

Ohio University Press

Athens, Ohio, U.S.A., 2000

ISBN : 0-8214-1367-8

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction : The relevance of postcolonial theories to the study of west african popular literatures

1. The proverbial space in ghanaian popular fiction

2. Making up their own minds. Readers, interpretations & the difference of view

3. Ghanaian readers' comments on the role of authors & the function of literature

4. 'Pen-pictures' of readers. The early days of ghanaian popular fiction

5. An incident of colonial intertextuality : The adventures of the black girl in her search for Mr Shaw

6. The 'book famine' in postcolonial West Africa

7. 'Two things may be alike but never the same'. E.K. Mickson's parodic techniques

8. 'Those mean and empty-headed men'. The shifting representations of wealth & women in two ghanaian popular novels

9. 'Reading the right sort of books & articles'. Kate Abbam's Obaa Sima

10. Uprising genres. Akosua Gyamfuaa-Fofie's romantic fiction

Conclusion : Popular novels & international african fiction

Bibliography 

Index