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Publishing the Postcolonial: Anglophone West African and Caribbean Writing in the UK 1948-1968

Publishing the Postcolonial: Anglophone West African and Caribbean Writing in the UK 1948-1968

Low, Gail

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures, Book 32

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0415424356
ISBN13: 9780415424356
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 8 2010
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book explores how writers such as Amos Tutuola, George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, VS Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite, and Wole Soyinka came to be published in London in important educational series such as the Three Crown Series and African Writers Series. Low takes account of recent debates in the discipline of book history, especially issues that deal with social, cultural, and economic questions of authorship, publishing histories, canon formation, and the production, distribution and reception of texts in the literary market place. Searching publishing archives for readers reports, editorial correspondence, and interventions, this book represents a necessary exploration of postwar publishing contexts and the dissemination of texts from London that is crucial to literary histories of the postcolonial book. Taken together as a postwar generation, this cohort of now canonical writers helped imagine their respective national communities, yet their intellectual labors entered an elite transnational literary circuit, and correspondingly, were transformed into textual commodities by the economic, social, cultural, and institutional transactions that were part of an expanding print capitalism.

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