LEADER 03914nam 2200709 450 001 9910787537103321 005 20230803031303.0 010 $a0-8214-4449-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000419286 035 $a(EBL)1743590 035 $a(OCoLC)861793553 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053562 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12459985 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053562 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11115200 035 $a(PQKB)10010392 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1743590 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1743590 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10757425 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000419286 100 $a20130520h20132013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe power to name $ea history of anonymity in colonial West Africa /$fStephanie Newell 210 1$aAthens, Ohio :$cOhio University Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (266 p.) 225 0$aNew African histories series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-2032-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tIntroduction: anonymity, pseudonymity, and the question of agency in colonial West African newspapers --$tPart 1. Newspapers in colonial West Africa --$tThe "fourth and only estate" : defining a public sphere in colonial West Africa --$tArticulating empire: newspaper networks in colonial West Africa --$tPart 2. Case studies from the Colonial Office --$tThe view from afar : the Colonial Office, imperial government, and pseudonymous African journalism --$tPart 3. Case studies from West African newspapers --$tTrickster tactics and the question of authorship in newspaper folktales --$tPrinting women : the gendering of literacy --$tNominal ladies and "real" women writers : female pseudonyms and the problem of authorial identity in the cases of "Rosa" and "Marjorie Mensah" --$tConclusion. "New visibilities" : African print subjects and the birth of the (postcolonial) author --$tAppendix: I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson in court. 330 $aBetween the 1880's and the 1940's, the region known as British West Africa became a dynamic zone of literary creativity and textual experimentation. African-owned newspapers offered local writers numerous opportunities to contribute material for publication, and editors repeatedly defined the press as a vehicle to host public debates rather than simply as an organ to disseminate news or editorial ideology. Literate locals responded with great zeal, and in increasing numbers as the twentieth century progressed, they sent in letters, articles, fiction, and poetry for publication in English- and A 410 0$aNew African Histories 606 $aAfrican newspapers$zAfrica, West$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAfrican newspapers$zAfrica, West$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAnonymous writings$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAnonymous writings$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiterary forgeries and mystifications 606 $aBooks and reading$zAfrica, West$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aBooks and reading$zAfrica, West$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aAfrica, West$xIntellectual life$y19th century 607 $aAfrica, West$xIntellectual life$y20th century 615 0$aAfrican newspapers$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican newspapers$xHistory 615 0$aAnonymous writings$xHistory 615 0$aAnonymous writings$xHistory 615 0$aLiterary forgeries and mystifications. 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 676 $a079.6609 700 $aNewell$b Stephanie$f1968-$0662470 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787537103321 996 $aThe power to name$93789022 997 $aUNINA