Awards

• Runner-up for Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Foundation for the Humanities & Social Sciences 2003 (Canada)
• Winner of Herskovits Award, African Studies Association 2003 (United States)
• Winner of Joel Gregory Prize, Canadian Association of African Studies 2002 (Canada)

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'The theoretical framework is sophisticated and new for African history. While drawing on comparative studies of the impact of writing... this study not only takes the analysis further, but also incorporates literature from fields of social psychology, anthropology, and philosophy in ways that will benefit historians... What emerges is a book which will be of value to specialists in Ghana's history and society as well as those interested in the cultural history of colonialism in Africa.'--Myron Echenberg, Department of History, McGill University 'This is not colonial history in the usual sense. Through careful, innnovative readings of colonial texts, Hawkins uncovers stories of African historical subjectivity in between the lines and outside the margins of the colonial archive. Writing and Colonialism demonstrates not only how 'the world on paper' invented African societies, but how African intellectuals, chiefs, and subalterns, in turn, negotiated their way through this written world - appropriating concepts at one point, rejecting some at another, and reconfiguring at yet another. It is a brilliantly original contribution to African colonial history.'--Jean Allman, Department of History, University of Illinois

'The theoretical framework is sophisticated and new for African history. While drawing on comparative studies of the impact of writing... this study not only takes the analysis further, but also incorporates literature from fields of social psychology, anthropology, and philosophy in ways that will benefit historians... What emerges is a book which will be of value to specialists in Ghana's history and society as well as those interested in the cultural history of colonialism in Africa.'--Myron Echenberg, Department of History, McGill University 'This is not colonial history in the usual sense. Through careful, innnovative readings of colonial texts, Hawkins uncovers stories of African historical subjectivity in between the lines and outside the margins of the colonial archive. Writing and Colonialism demonstrates not only how 'the world on paper' invented African societies, but how African intellectuals, chiefs, and subalterns, in turn, negotiated their way through this written world - appropriating concepts at one point, rejecting some at another, and reconfiguring at yet another. It is a brilliantly original contribution to African colonial history.' --Jean Allman, Department of History, University of Illinois

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Sean Hawkins is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

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