Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Here, There, and Everywhere: Modernity in Question
- 1 (Im)possible Necessities: Reading an African Formation in Contradiction
- 2 Imperial Exchanges, Postimperial Reconfigurations: Africa in the Modern, the Modern in Africa
- 3 “Worlding” Nativity: Early Gold Coast Culturalist Imperatives and Nationalist Initiatives
- 4 On the Road to Ghana: Negotiations, Paradoxes, Pratfalls
- 5 Faust in Africa: Genealogy of a “Messenger Class”
- 6 Black Orpheus; or the (Modernist) Return of the Native: J. E. Casely Hayford’s Ethiopia Unbound
- 7 Prometheus Unbound: Nkrumah’s Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
- Postscript Ethical Transnationalism, Postcolonialism, the Black Atlantic: Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa vis-à-vis the Contemporary Revisionisms
- Abbreviated Titles
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 March 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Here, There, and Everywhere: Modernity in Question
- 1 (Im)possible Necessities: Reading an African Formation in Contradiction
- 2 Imperial Exchanges, Postimperial Reconfigurations: Africa in the Modern, the Modern in Africa
- 3 “Worlding” Nativity: Early Gold Coast Culturalist Imperatives and Nationalist Initiatives
- 4 On the Road to Ghana: Negotiations, Paradoxes, Pratfalls
- 5 Faust in Africa: Genealogy of a “Messenger Class”
- 6 Black Orpheus; or the (Modernist) Return of the Native: J. E. Casely Hayford’s Ethiopia Unbound
- 7 Prometheus Unbound: Nkrumah’s Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
- Postscript Ethical Transnationalism, Postcolonialism, the Black Atlantic: Writing Ghana, Imagining Africa vis-à-vis the Contemporary Revisionisms
- Abbreviated Titles
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Writing Ghana, Imagining AfricaNation and African Modernity, pp. 319 - 336Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2004