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The power to name : a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa / Stephanie Newell. [electronic resource]

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New African histories seriesPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)ISBN:
  • 9780821444498 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Power to name : a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa.DDC classification:
  • 079.6609 23
LOC classification:
  • PN5450.5.W34 N49 2013
Online resources:
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.
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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.

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