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

by Gail Low

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415424356
• ISBN13: 9780415424356
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"