Scripting Empire recovers the literary and cultural history of West
Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the
critical mid-century decades of shrinking British sovereignty, late
modernism, and mass migration to the metropole. Between the 1930s
and the 1960s, a remarkable group of black Atlantic artists and
intellectuals became producers, editors, and freelancers at the
corporation, including Una Marson, Langston Hughes, Louise Bennett,
Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, Amos Tutuola, V.S. Naipaul, Sam
Selvon, Cyprian Ekwensi, Stuart Hall, and C.L.R. James. Operating
at the interface of a range of literary and broadcast genres, this
loose network of African Caribbean writers and thinkers prompt a
reassessment of the aesthetic, formal, and political fallout of
decolonization between the outbreak of World War II and the first
airings of post-colonial independence. Scripting Empire works
comparatively across dozens of different programmes spanning the
General Overseas Service, Home Service, Light Programme, and Third
Programme. Drawing upon a transnational archive of materials
including scripts, correspondence, periodicals, visual records, and
sound recordings, it seeks to re-position the cultural contribution
of West Indians and West Africans within a more pervasive and
porous account of radio transmission, the legacy of which extends
well beyond broadcasting.
General
Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
James Procter
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Dimensions: |
216 x 135mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-889417-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-19-889417-1 |
Barcode: |
9780198894179 |
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