Stephanie Newell

Histories of Dirt

Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on colonial and postcolonial Lagos, Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces come to be regarded as dirty by showing how colonial perceptions of dirt and cleanliness structured colonial governance, urban planning, public health policies, and relationships between colonists and native Lagosians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781478006435
• ISBN-10: 1478006439
• Artikelnr.: 56973910

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Newell is Professor of English at Yale University and Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Stellenbosch. She is the author of several books, most recently, The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations  vii
Author's Note  ix
Preface. The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa (Dirtpol) Project  xi
Acknowledgments  xvii
Introduction  1
1. European Insanitary Nuisances  16
2. Malaria: Lines in the Dirt  32
3. African Newspapers, the "Great Unofficial Public," and Plague in
Colonial Lagos  43
4. Screening Dirt: Public Health Movies in Colonial Nigeria and Rural
Spectatorship in the 1930s and 1940s  58
5. Methods, Unsound Methods, No Methods at All?  79
6. Popular Perceptions of "Dirty" in Multicultural Lagos  90
7. Remembering Waste  115
8. City Sexualities: Negotiating Homophobia  142
Conclusion. Mediated Publics, Uncontrollable Audiences  158
Appendix. Words, Phrases, and Sayings Related to Dirt in Lagos  169
Notes  175
References  215
Index  241