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Mon, Nov 10, 2014
12:00 pm
The 21st-century popular fiction genre of Ghana (which I call ‘market fiction’) stands out for its adoption of sensational aesthetics – its dramatic cover images and its supernatural and violent episodes, but also its slapstick comedy and its intertextual associations with other lively cultural forms from its readership’s lived world. One of the subjects the market fiction takes up is slavery. Whereas ‘official’ West African fiction has largely avoided directly depicting slavery, an historical practice that continues to evoke feelings of cultural shame (L.