Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the Bbc, and the Black Atlantic by Procter, James

Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the Bbc, and the Black Atlantic (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198894179)

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Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the Bbc, and the Black Atlantic by Procter, James

Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the Bbc, and the Black Atlantic

$100.00
Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the Bbc, and the Black Atlantic by Procter, James

Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the Bbc, and the Black Atlantic

$100.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: James Procter
ISBN-10: 0198894171
ISBN-13: 9780198894179
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 06/18/2024
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 1.00d
By James Procter
By James Procter
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James Procter, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Newcastle University

James Procter is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University. He is the author of Dwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing (2003), Stuart Hall (2004), co-editor of Reading Across Worlds (2015), Out of Bounds: British Black and Asian Poets (2012), and Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception (2013), as well as numerous articles and chapters in leading postcolonial journals and book collections. His current research interests are in radio literature and empire between the 1930s and late 1960s, a project for which he was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2013-14.

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