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Ethiopia Unbound: A Critical Edition
This book shines a new light on J. E. Casely Hayford’s Ethiopia Unbound, widely considered the first English-language novel published by an African writer. Casely Hayford drew material from his eminent career as a barrister, statesman, and newspaper editor to augment the book’s fictional elements, showcasing the tremendous intellectual versatility of West Africa. Moving between London and the Gold Coast, as well as across the past, present, and imagined future of Casely Hayford’s Fante civilization, Ethiopia Unbound is an essential record of how Africans at the turn of the twentieth century made sense of their place in a rapidly changing world.
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Ethiopia Unbound: A Critical Edition
This book shines a new light on J. E. Casely Hayford’s Ethiopia Unbound, widely considered the first English-language novel published by an African writer. Casely Hayford drew material from his eminent career as a barrister, statesman, and newspaper editor to augment the book’s fictional elements, showcasing the tremendous intellectual versatility of West Africa. Moving between London and the Gold Coast, as well as across the past, present, and imagined future of Casely Hayford’s Fante civilization, Ethiopia Unbound is an essential record of how Africans at the turn of the twentieth century made sense of their place in a rapidly changing world.
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Ethiopia Unbound: A Critical Edition

Ethiopia Unbound: A Critical Edition

Ethiopia Unbound: A Critical Edition

Ethiopia Unbound: A Critical Edition

Overview

This book shines a new light on J. E. Casely Hayford’s Ethiopia Unbound, widely considered the first English-language novel published by an African writer. Casely Hayford drew material from his eminent career as a barrister, statesman, and newspaper editor to augment the book’s fictional elements, showcasing the tremendous intellectual versatility of West Africa. Moving between London and the Gold Coast, as well as across the past, present, and imagined future of Casely Hayford’s Fante civilization, Ethiopia Unbound is an essential record of how Africans at the turn of the twentieth century made sense of their place in a rapidly changing world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611864960
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Publication date: 08/01/2024
Pages: 198
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jeanne-Marie Jackson is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University, where she works and teaches in the areas of South African, Zimbabwean, Ghanaian, global British, and Russian literary and intellectual traditions. She received her PhD in comparative literature from Yale University in 2012. In 2021 she was named an Andrew Carnegie fellow, and in 2023 she became senior editor of the flagship English literature journal ELH.


Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang received her PhD from the University of Toronto’s Centre for Comparative Literature. She was a Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney fellow at the University of Michigan and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council fellow. She researches and teaches humor in anglophone and francophone African literatures.
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