Stephanie Newell
Stephanie Newell is a reader in English literature at the University of Sussex and the author of West African Literature: Ways of Reading, Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana, and Ghanaian Popular Fiction: How to Play the Game of Life.
Author of…
Ghanaian Popular Fiction
Thrilling Discoveries in Conjugal Life and Other Tales
This is a study of the 'unofficial' side of African fiction—the largely undocumented writing, publishing, and reading of pamphlets and paperbacks—which exists outside the grid of mass production. Stephanie Newell examines the popular fiction of Ghana produced since the 1930s, analyzing the distinctive ways in which narrative forms are borrowed and regenerated by authors and readers.…
The Forger’s Tale
The Search for Odeziaku
Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was it possible for an unconventional, boy-loving Englishman to gain a social status among the local populace enjoyed by few other Europeans in colonial West Africa? In The Forger's Tale: The Search for Odeziaku Stephanie Newell charts the story of the English novelist and poet John Moray Stuart-Young (1881-1939) as he traveled from the slums of Manchester to West Africa in order to escape the homophobic prejudices of late-Victorian society.…
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Associate professor of history at Eastern Michigan University… - Muna Ndulo
Author of Security, Reconstruction and Reconciliation: When the Wars End… - Tekaste Negash
- Samuel H. Nelson
Associate professor of history at the U.S… - Mary Lou Nemanic
Associate professor of communications at Penn State Altoona… - Howard Nemerov
- Kirk Nesset
Author of two books of short stories Paradise Road, and Mr. Agreeable, as well as Alphabet of the World: Selected Works of Eugenio Montejo… - David Newbury
Gwendolen Carter Professor of African Studies at Smith College… - Stephanie Newell
Reader in English literature at the University of Sussex and the author of West African Literature: Ways of Reading, Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana, and Ghanaian Popular Fiction: How to Play the Game of Life… - Beth Newman
Named a University Distinguished Teaching Professor… - Anh Tuan Nguyen
- Ngọc Huy Nguyễn
- Alfred Nhema
Executive secretary of OSSREA, the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, Addis Ababa… - Anaïs Nin
One of the most unique literary figures of this century… - Allen G. Noble
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Assistant professor of English at SUNY Brockport… - Henk Schulte Nordholt
Professor of Asian history at Erasmus University in Rotterdam and an associate professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam… - Gurney Norman
- Jane E. Norris
- Nick Norwood
Author of the poetry collections The Soft Blare and A Palace for the Heart and the fine press book Wrestle, which he produced in collaboration with the artist and master printer Erika Adams… - Paul Nugent
Senior Lecturer in African History at Edinburgh University… - Frederick M. Nunn
Visiting professor of history and Latin American studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson… - Celia Nyamweru
