《Your Secret Language》是Bloomsbury Academic; Reprint edition出版的圖書，作者是Barbara Goff
基本介紹
- ISBN：9781472584090
- 作者：Barbara Goff
- 出版社：Bloomsbury Academic; Reprint edition
- 出版時間：2014年10月23日
- 頁數：248
- 叢書：Classical Diaspora
內容簡介
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 expression. The enquiry is structured around three main quest...(展開全部) 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 expression. The enquiry is structured around three main questions: how Classics contributed to the formation of a new class of Europeanising West Africans in the late 19th century; how Classics was implicated in the ideological struggles of the early twentieth century over the desirability of 'practical' or 'agricultural' education; and how the uses of Classics changed in the years leading up to independence. Barbara Goff is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading, UK.
