James Procter (Professor of Modern and New Contemporary Literature

Scripting Empire

Broadcasting, the Bbc, and the Black Atlantic

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Produktbeschreibung

A volume on the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC. The volume covers over 40 different radio programmes which appeared within the 'Calling West Africa' and 'Calling West Indies' schedules between 1941 and 1965 and brings together a wide range of uncatalogued archive materials.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 135mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780198894179
• ISBN-10: 0198894171
• Artikelnr.: 68212362

Autorenporträt

James Procter is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University. He is the author of Dwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing (2003), Stuart Hall (2004), co-editor of Reading Across Worlds (2015), Out of Bounds: British Black and Asian Poets (2012), and Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception (2013), as well as numerous articles and chapters in leading postcolonial journals and book collections. His current research interests are in radio literature and empire between the 1930s and late 1960s, a project for which he was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2013-14.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Lyric
2: Voice
3: Echo
4: The Short Space
5: Local Colour
Postscript