The power to name : : a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa / / Stephanie Newell.

• Author: Newell, Stephanie, 1968-
• Place / Publishing House: Athens, Ohio : : Ohio University Press,, [2013]; 2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: New African histories series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 pages).
• Other title: Introduction: anonymity, pseudonymity, and the question of agency in colonial West African newspapers --; Part 1. Newspapers in colonial West Africa --; The "fourth and only estate" : defining a public sphere in colonial West Africa --; Articulating empire: newspaper networks in colonial West Africa --; Part 2. Case studies from the Colonial Office --; The view from afar : the Colonial Office, imperial government, and pseudonymous African journalism --; Part 3. Case studies from West African newspapers --; Trickster tactics and the question of authorship in newspaper folktales --; Printing women : the gendering of literacy --; Nominal ladies and "real" women writers : female pseudonyms and the problem of authorial identity in the cases of "Rosa" and "Marjorie Mensah" --; Conclusion. "New visibilities" : African print subjects and the birth of the (postcolonial) author --; Appendix: I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson in court.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780821420324; 9780821444498
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stephanie Newell.