Special Feature on African Children’s Literature Radical Equality in Ghanaian Market Fiction for Children

Esther DE BRUIJN*

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Abstract

This article situates Ghana’s popular market fiction for children in relation to British colonial and official Ghanaian children’s literature and, following Rancière’s model of the ‘ignorant schoolmaster’, presses for an expectation of intelligence from the rowdy genre, toward ‘radical equality’. Joshua Kojo Sey’s Wonders Shall Never End (c. 2017) serves as a central case of how a text that may seem to lack control over its own abundance of ideas offers up vital imaginary constructs.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)204-217
Number of pages14
JournalInternational Research in Children's Literature
Volume15
Issue number2
Early online dateMay 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2022

Keywords

  • African literature
  • capitalism
  • children’s literature
  • gender
  • Ghanaian literature
  • mythopoesis
  • popular fiction

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