This book paints a detailed picture of how anti-colonial publishing operated from the very heart of the British Empire in the middle of the 20th century.
Pointing to the vibrant interconnections between anti-colonial and Pan-African activists in Britain, it engages with their personal politics, political thought, and global links to recast how we think about both publishing and anti-colonialism at this time. It engages with activists on their own terms through a book history approach, one that takes seriously the printed manifestations of anti-colonial thought, and views printing and publishing as political activism.
Assessing various forms of Pan-African writing, from pamphlets and journals to novels and works of anthropology, this book unpacks how different activists 'did' their politics, and what these politics were. Delving into the literary works that supported and maintained British Pan-African activism, Writing against Empire highlights the central and crucial role of written texts to this movement. Unpicking the links between different thinkers and their works, and analysing how such a wealth of anti-colonial writers could operate within the very core of empire, Bowman gets to the heart of anti-colonial action in 20th-century Britain, and the centrality of print to this struggle.
- 289 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction : Pan-African print, politics in action
- 1 Pan-African journals Ras T. Makonnen and Black self-sufficiency
- 2 George Padmore and Pan-African pamphlets
- 3 The Black Jacobins and the early political thought of C. L. R. James
- 4 Implicit Pan-African print Jomo Kenyatta and Facing Mount Kenya
- Epilogue : Writing against Empire
- Bibliography
- Index
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