The power to name : a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa /
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| Language: | English |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | New African histories series
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Table of Contents:
- 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.