This is a study of the unofficial side of African fiction. Stephanie Newell's book reveals the undocumented writing, publishing and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks which exist outside of mainstream mass-production in Ghana. Gender relations are a dominant theme in the stories which explore and symbolically resolve commonly held pre-occupations about marriage, money and manhood. North America: Ohio U Press

About the Author
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.

Reviews
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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780852555569
Author Stephanie Newell
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint James Currey
Publisher James Currey
Weight(grams) 296g