The power to name: a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa
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title | The power to name a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa |
title_alt | 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 |
title_auth | The power to name a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa |
title_exact_search | The power to name a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa |
title_full | The power to name a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa Stephanie Newell |
title_fullStr | The power to name a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa Stephanie Newell |
title_full_unstemmed | The power to name a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa Stephanie Newell |
title_short | The power to name |
title_sort | the power to name a history of anonymity in colonial west africa |
title_sub | a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa |
topic | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies bisacsh LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism bisacsh African newspapers fast Anonymous writings fast Books and reading fast Intellectual life fast Literary forgeries and mystifications fast Geschichte African newspapers History 19th century African newspapers 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 Pseudonym (DE-588)4047653-4 gnd Anonymes Werk (DE-588)4129056-2 gnd Zeitung (DE-588)4067510-5 gnd Kolonie (DE-588)4031790-0 gnd |
topic_facet | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism African newspapers Anonymous writings Books and reading Intellectual life Literary forgeries and mystifications Geschichte African newspapers History 19th century African newspapers History 20th century Anonymous writings History 19th century Anonymous writings History 20th century Books and reading Africa, West History 19th century Books and reading Africa, West History 20th century Pseudonym Anonymes Werk Zeitung Kolonie Westafrika |
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