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'Your Secret Language'

By Barbara Goff

'Your Secret Language' Contemporary literature

'Your Secret Language'

By Barbara Goff

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This book is the first to examine the complex and contradictory history of Classics in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria. It investigates how Classical Studies, as an integral part of colonial education, enforced a notion of cultural inferiority on African subjects, but conversely played an enabling role in nationalist expression. The enquiry is structured around three main questions: how Classics contributed to the formation of a new class of Europeanising West Africans in the late 19th century; how Classics was implicated in the ideological struggles of the early twentieth century over the desirability of 'practical' or 'agricultural' education; and how the uses of Classics changed in the years leading up to independence.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
248
Release Date:
2013-02-28
Publication Date:
2013-02-28
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1780932057
ISBN13:
9781780932057
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
540 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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