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Africa's hidden histories, everyday literacy and making the self.(Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy And Making the Self)(Book review)

Research in African Literatures

| December 22, 2007 | Ricard, Alain | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

ED. KARIN BARBER Bloomington, Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2006, 451 p.

Literacy studies have been gaining epistemological relevance in Britain as well as in France, where a new word-litteratie [sic!]-has even been invented for them! The study of the emergence of literary practices indeed puts a new emphasis on older themes. Karin Barber talks of "tin trunk texts" in her remarkable introduction that synthesizes the different contributions of what was, at the beginning, a series of seminars funded by the ESRC of the UK. What is "revealed" in the hidden histories of these tin trunk texts is not only a history of personal self-awakening, but also the history of a subtle struggle to undermine cultural domination. This book is an …

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