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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newell, Stephanie, 1968-

Series:

New African histories series

New African histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African newspapers--History--19th century.

African newspapers.

African newspapers--History--20th century.

Anonymous writings--History--19th century.

Anonymous writings.

Anonymous writings--History--20th century.

Literary forgeries and mystifications.

Books and reading.

History.

Intellectual life.

Africa, West--Intellectual life--19th century.

Africa, West.

Africa, West--Intellectual life--20th century.

Books and reading--Africa, West--History--19th century.

Books and reading--Africa, West--History--20th century.

West Africa.

Physical Description:

ix, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.

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.

ISBN:

9780821420324

0821420321

9780821444498

0821444492

OCLC:

822025328