Imperial encore : the cultural project of the late British empire /

"In the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced broadcasting services, publication bureaus, and film units into Africa under the rubric of colonial development. They used radio, film, and mass-produced books to spread British values and the English language across the continent. This proje...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Ritter, Caroline, 1984- (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
سلاسل:Berkeley series in British studies ; 18.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1b742vz
جدول المحتويات:
  • Introduction
  • Shakespeare in Africa : the British Council and drama export
  • "Bringing books to Africans" : publishing in colonial East Africa
  • "This is London..." : BBC broadcasting to colonial Africa
  • "... Calling Africa" : capturing the Cold War audience
  • Patrons of postcolonial culture : British publishers and African writers
  • From culture to aid to paid : cultural relations after empire
  • Epilogue.