Goff Barbara Books
Books di Goff Barbara pubblicati nella collana Intl Pub Marketing Inc Paperback
Classics And Colonialism
Goff Barbara E. (EDT)
edizioni Intl Pub Marketing Inc collana Intl Pub Marketing Inc (Paperback)
Six scholarly essays examine the ways in which the classics have been used in the service of (or as a means of undermining) various British imperialist projects. Editor Goff (U. of Reading, UK) considers the nature of post-colonialism and provides a brief overview of the field in the introduction. Other topics include...
Your Secret Language
Goff Barbara
edizioni Intl Pub Marketing Inc collana Intl Pub Marketing Inc (Paperback) , 2012
This book is the first to examine the complex and contradictory history of Classics in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria. It investigates how Classical Studies, as an integral part of colonial education, enforced a notion of cultural inferiority on African subjects, but conversely played an enabling role in nationalist...