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The power to name : a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa /
Between the 1880s and the 1940s, 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | New African histories series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : anonymity, pseudonymity, and the question of agency in colonial West African newspapers
- "Fourth and only estate" : defining a public sphere in colonial West Africa
- Articulating empire : newspaper networks in colonial West Africa
- View from afar : the Colonial Office, imperial government, and pseudonymous African journalism
- 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.