Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel: I.B. Thomas's 'Life Story of Me, Segilola' and Other Texts - Paperback
by Karin Barber
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Availability:In StockContributor:Karin BarberSeries:African Sources for African HistoryTheme:Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.), Cultural Region/African, Interdisciplinary Studies/AfricanPublish date:5/25/2012Pages:422
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004229150ISBN-10:9004229159UPC:9789004229150Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Africa, African, AncientSize:9.30 x 6.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.658Product ID:SC63XV1XSJ
First appearing as a series of letters to a local newspaper, "The Life Story of Me, Segilola" caused a sensation in Lagos in the late 1920s. The lifelike autobiography of a repentant courtesan, it regaled the reader with risqué escapades, pious moralising and vivid evocations of urban popular culture. The narrative and the commentary that sprang up around it in the Yoruba press offer a unique view of life in colonial Lagos. Today it is recognised as I.B.Thomas's work and hailed as the first Yoruba novel in a major African literary tradition. This volume presents the edited Yoruba text with translation, selected newspaper correspondence, and an introductory essay showing how the text emerged from the Yoruba print culture of the time.
Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel has won the Paul Hair Prize 2013!
Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel has won the Paul Hair Prize 2013!
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004229150ISBN-10:9004229159UPC:9789004229150Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Africa, African, AncientSize:9.30 x 6.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.658Product ID:SC63XV1XSJ
Karin Barber, Ph.D. (1979, University of Ife, Nigeria), is Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. She has published extensively on Yoruba culture. Her most recent book is The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
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