The power to name : : a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa / / Stephanie Newell.
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Place / Publishing House: | Athens, Ohio : : Ohio University Press,, [2013] 2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | New African histories series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (266 pages). |
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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. |
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Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780821420324 9780821444498 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Stephanie Newell. |