{"product_id":"scripting-empire-broadcasting-the-bbc-and-the-black-atlantic-hardcover","title":"Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the Bbc, and the Black Atlantic - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Procter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eScripting Empire\u003c\/em\u003e recovers the literary and cultural history of West Indian and West African writing at the BBC in order to rethink the critical mid-century decades of shrinking British sovereignty, late modernism, and mass migration to the metropole. Between the 1930s and the 1960s, a remarkable group of black Atlantic artists and intellectuals became producers, editors, and freelancers at the corporation, including Una Marson, Langston Hughes, Louise Bennett, Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, Amos Tutuola, V.S. Naipaul, Sam Selvon, Cyprian Ekwensi, Stuart Hall, and C.L.R. James. Operating at the interface of a range of literary and broadcast genres, this loose network of African Caribbean writers and thinkers prompt a reassessment of the aesthetic, formal, and political fallout of decolonization between the outbreak of World War II and the first airings of post-colonial independence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eScripting Empire\u003c\/em\u003e works comparatively across dozens of different programmes spanning the General Overseas Service, Home Service, Light Programme, and Third Programme. Drawing upon a transnational archive of materials including scripts, correspondence, periodicals, visual records, and sound recordings, it seeks to re-position the cultural contribution of West Indians and West Africans within a more pervasive and porous account of radio transmission, the legacy of which extends well beyond broadcasting.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Procter, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Newcastle University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Procter is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eDwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing\u003c\/em\u003e (2003), \u003cem\u003eStuart Hall\u003c\/em\u003e (2004), co-editor of \u003cem\u003eReading Across Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), \u003cem\u003eOut of Bounds: British Black and Asian Poets\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), and \u003cem\u003ePostcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), as well as numerous articles and chapters in leading postcolonial journals and book collections. His current research interests are in radio literature and empire between the 1930s and late 1960s, a project for which he was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2013-14.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 18, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52513645625651,"sku":"9780198894179","price":186.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/u8Od8AuBFr9780198894179.webp?v=1760370749","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/scripting-empire-broadcasting-the-bbc-and-the-black-atlantic-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}