TY  - BOOK
AU  - Newell,Stephanie
TI  - The power to name: a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa 
AV  - PN5450.5.W34 N49 2013eb
U1  - 079.6609 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Athens, Ohio
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - African newspapers
KW  - Africa, West
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Anonymous writings
KW  - Literary forgeries and mystifications
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10757425
ER  -