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

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Autor principal: Newell, Stephanie, 1968-
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2013]
Col·lecció:New African histories series
Matèries:
African newspapers > Africa, West > History > 19th century.
African newspapers > Africa, West > History > 20th century.
Anonymous writings > History > 19th century.
Anonymous writings > History > 20th century.
Literary forgeries and mystifications.
Books and reading > Africa, West > History > 19th century.
Books and reading > Africa, West > History > 20th century.
Africa, West > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Africa, West > Intellectual life > 20th century.
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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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