Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire - Couverture rigide

Ritter, Caroline

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520375939 ISBN 13 : 9780520375932

Editeur : University of California Press, 2021

Synopsis

In the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus into Africa under the rubric of colonial development. They used theater, radio, and mass-produced books to spread British values and the English language across the continent. This project proved remarkably resilient: well after the end of Britain's imperial rule, many of its cultural institutions remained in place. Through the 1960s and 1970s, African audiences continued to attend Shakespeare performances and listen to the BBC, while African governments adopted English-language textbooks produced by metropolitan publishing houses.

Imperial Encore traces British drama, broadcasting, and publishing in Africa between the 1930s and the 1980s--the half century spanning the end of British colonial rule and the outset of African national rule. Caroline Ritter shows how three major cultural institutions--the British Council, the BBC, and Oxford University Press--integrated their work with British imperial aims, and continued this project well after the end of formal British rule. Tracing these institutions and the media they produced through the tumultuous period of decolonization and its aftermath, Ritter offers the first account of the global footprint of British cultural imperialism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Caroline Ritter is Assistant Professor of History at Texas State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520375939
• ISBN 13: 9780520375932
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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