Power to Name - A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa

Informationen zum Autor Stephanie Newell is a professor of English at the University of Sussex! UK! and the author of "West African Literature: Ways of Reading!" "Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana!" and "Ghanaian Popular Fiction: How to Play the Game of Life." Zusammenfassung Between the 1880s and the 1940s, the region known as British West Africa became a dynamic zone of literary creativity and textual experimentation. This book offers a cultural history of this phenomenon, examining the array of anonymous and pseudonymous writing practices to be found in African-owned newspapers between the 1880s and the 1940s.

Product details

• Authors: Stephanie Newell
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2013
• EAN: 9780821420324
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2032-4
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: New African Histories; New African Histories
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book