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Scripting Empire
James Procter
其他書名
Broadcasting, the BBC, and the Black Atlantic
出版Oxford University Press, 2024-03-06
主題Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Historical EventsLiterary Criticism / GeneralPerforming Arts / Radio / GeneralLiterary Criticism / PoetryHistory / Modern / 20th Century / General
ISBN01988942529780198894254
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oY75EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.