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



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Autore: Newell Stephanie <1968-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The power to name : a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa / / Stephanie Newell Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
Disciplina: 079.6609
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Africa, West Intellectual life 19th century
Africa, West Intellectual life 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 A
Titolo autorizzato: The power to name  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8214-4449-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910462622903321
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Serie: New African Histories