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Your Secret Language': Classics in the British Colonies of West Africa: Classical Diaspora

Autor Barbara Goff
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 aug 2014
This book is the first to examine the complex and contradictory history of Classics in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria. It investigates how Classical Studies, as an integral part of colonial education, enforced a notion of cultural inferiority on African subjects, but conversely played an enabling role in nationalist expression. The enquiry is structured around three main questions: how Classics contributed to the formation of a new class of Europeanising West Africans in the late 19th century; how Classics was implicated in the ideological struggles of the early twentieth century over the desirability of 'practical' or 'agricultural' education; and how the uses of Classics changed in the years leading up to independence.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472584090
ISBN-10: 1472584090
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:NIPPOD.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Classical Diaspora

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction
Colonial Contradictions
Classics and Cultural Nationalism
Twentieth-Century Struggles
Classics and West African Modernity
Notes
Bibliography
Index