Stephanie Newell

Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s - 1960s

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Produktbeschreibung

Groundbreaking examination of literary production in West African newspapers and local printing presses in the first half of the 20th century

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781847013828
• ISBN-10: 1847013821
• Artikelnr.: 67786243

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Newell is George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University. Her works include Histories of Dirt in West Africa: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos (2020) and The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa (2013), finalist for the ASA Best Book Prize 2014.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Anglo-Scribes and Anglo-Literates in West African Newspaper
History 2. The Time of Letters: Epistolarity and Nigerian Newsprint
Cultures 3. 'Shameless Thefts' vs Local Literatures: Dusé Mohamed Ali's
Comet 4. Onitsha Pamphlets: Youth Literature for the Modern World 5. The
Work of Repetition in Nigerian Epistolary Pamphlets 6. English Romantic
Discourse: Women vs Men 7. Female Critical Communities in Nigerian Pamphlet
Literature: 'Beware of Women' 8. Writing Time: African Cold War Aesthetics
and Nigerian Political Dramas of the 1960s 9. Romances from the Nigerian
Civil War: Veronica's End Conclusion: Local Aesthetics