"And I slip into it unawares": The function of bilingualism in Kobina Sekyi's The Blinkards (1915)
In this essay, I discuss the function of bilingualism in Kobina Sekyi’s The Blinkards (1915). The play, written in both English and Fanti, satirizes the Anglophile tendencies of the Cape Coast’s indigenous bourgeoisie, and extant criticism has tended to focus on the comedic effect of this class’s us...
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Indiana University Press
2020
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