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020 $a9780821420324 (pb : alk. paper)
020 $a9780821444498 (electronic)
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050 00 $aPN5450.5.W34$bN49 2013
082 04 $a079.6609$223
100 1 $aNewell, Stephanie,$d1968-
245 14 $aThe power to name :$ba history of anonymity in colonial West Africa /$cStephanie Newell.
264 1 $aAthens, Ohio :$bOhio University Press,$c[2013]
300 $aix, 255 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aNew African histories
505 00 $tIntroduction: anonymity, pseudonymity, and the question of agency in colonial West African newspapers --$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.
650 0 $aAfrican newspapers$zAfrica, West$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAfrican newspapers$zAfrica, West$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAnonymous writings$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAnonymous writings$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aLiterary forgeries and mystifications.
651 0 $aAfrica, West$xIntellectual life$y19th century.
651 0 $aAfrica, West$xIntellectual life$y20th century.
650 0 $aBooks and reading$zAfrica, West$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aBooks and reading$zAfrica, West$xHistory$y20th century.
830 0 $aNew African histories series.