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The power to name :

by Newell, Stephanie, Series: New African histories series Physical details: 1 online resource (266 pages). ISBN:9780821444498 (e-book).
Subject(s): African newspapers -- Africa, West -- History -- 19th century. | African newspapers -- Africa, West -- 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. | Africa, West -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. | Africa, West -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. | Electronic books.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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