• ISBN13: 9781905422876
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publisher Imprint: Seagull
• Publication Date: August 16, 2009
• Pages: 202
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 499 grams

About the Book The Popular and the Public brings together a range of international scholars to examine how popular culture has shaped the public sphere, providing an alternative space for political debate in 19th and 20th Century India, Africa and Europe. A diverse range of case studies include: competition between Christians, Muslims and Traditionalists within public culture in Nigeria; popular music and songs of war and peace in Uganda; Battala chap-books, popular painting and battles over urban space in Calcutta; Islamic festivals and moral debates around AIDS and crime in post-apartheid South Africa; Danish orientalism; nationalist journalism in Kenya; and notions of 'miraculous literacy' among Evangelical Christians in Africa.

Hofmeyr, Isabel: -

Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand and is editor of The Portable Bunyan: a Transnational History of The Pilgrim's Progress.

Kaarsholm, Preben: -

Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand and is editor of The Portable Bunyan: a Transnational History of The Pilgrim's Progress.