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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 204-217 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | International Research in Children's Literature |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | May 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2022 |
Keywords
- African literature
- capitalism
- children’s literature
- gender
- Ghanaian literature
- mythopoesis
- popular fiction