03914nam 2200709 450 991082733660332120230803031303.00-8214-4449-2(CKB)2670000000419286(EBL)1743590(OCoLC)861793553(SSID)ssj0001053562(PQKBManifestationID)12459985(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053562(PQKBWorkID)11115200(PQKB)10010392(MiAaPQ)EBC1743590(Au-PeEL)EBL1743590(CaPaEBR)ebr10757425(EXLCZ)99267000000041928620130520h20132013 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe power to name a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa /Stephanie NewellAthens, Ohio :Ohio University Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (266 p.)New African histories seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8214-2032-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Between the 1880's and the 1940's, the region known as British West Africa became a dynamic zone of literary creativity and textual experimentation. African-owned newspapers offered local writers numerous opportunities to contribute material for publication, and editors repeatedly defined the press as a vehicle to host public debates rather than simply as an organ to disseminate news or editorial ideology. Literate locals responded with great zeal, and in increasing numbers as the twentieth century progressed, they sent in letters, articles, fiction, and poetry for publication in English- and ANew African HistoriesAfrican newspapersAfrica, WestHistory19th centuryAfrican newspapersAfrica, WestHistory20th centuryAnonymous writingsHistory19th centuryAnonymous writingsHistory20th centuryLiterary forgeries and mystificationsBooks and readingAfrica, WestHistory19th centuryBooks and readingAfrica, WestHistory20th centuryAfrica, WestIntellectual life19th centuryAfrica, WestIntellectual life20th centuryAfrican newspapersHistoryAfrican newspapersHistoryAnonymous writingsHistoryAnonymous writingsHistoryLiterary forgeries and mystifications.Books and readingHistoryBooks and readingHistory079.6609Newell Stephanie1968-662470MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827336603321The power to name4025785UNINA