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Afterword: Newsprint Worlds and Reading Publics in Colonial Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

Stephanie Newell
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Abstract

This article discusses the ways in which newsprint allowed local contributors and readers in colonial settings to think across gender, race, and other core colonial subject-positions. It also asks about the extent to which the central role of men in controlling local print networks has implications for how we conceptualise “publics” and “public spheres” in the colonial era.

Keywords

colonialismgenderlocal elitesnewspaperspublic sphere
Type
Afterword
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Itinerario , Volume 44 , Special Issue 2: Colonial Public Spheres and the Worlds of Print , August 2020 , pp. 435 - 445
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Research Institute for History, Leiden University

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Stephanie Newell is Professor of English and Senior Research Fellow in International and Area Studies at Yale University. Her books and articles on African print cultures include The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa (2013) and Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos (2020).

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