Stephanie Newell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3611681 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephanie Newell |
| NOMBRES | Stephanie |
| APELLIDO | Newell |
| FIRMA | NEWELL S |
| AFILIACIONES | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-0662-4493 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 66 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 115 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
African Literature in Transition
This book offers a compelling vision of the dynamism of local printing presses across colonial Africa and the new textual forms they generated. It invites a reconceptualisation of African literature as a field by revealing the profusion of local, innovative textual production that surrounded and preceded canonical European-language literary traditions. Bringing together examples of print production in African, Europea and Arabic languages, it exp…
‘Usefully Unofficial’ Reading
Focusing on the proliferation of independent African-owned presses in eastern Nigeria in the 1950s and 1960s, this chapter discusses the popular pamphlets known as Onitsha market literature. The chapter asks how the upsurge in local publishing shaped readers’ ideas about literary languages and contributed to authors’ social prestige as intellectuals. The chapter describes the practicalities of pamphlet production, as well as the ways pamphleteers…
African Literature in Transition
Financial penalty associated with a decline in hospital-acquired complications in Australia
Evidence for pay-for-performance (p4p) and hospital patient safety has been inconclusive. • A p4p policy targeting hospital-acquired complications was introduced across Australia. • The policy’s introduction was associated with a decline in complications. • No evidence of gaming and systematic miscoding was observed. • P4p may can potentially complement other efforts to improve safety of hospital care. Adverse events during hospital care are a gl…
Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s-1960s
Groundbreaking examination of literary production in West African newspapers and local printing presses in the first half of the twentieth century.
Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s – 1960s
The Work of Repetition in 1960s Nigerian Epistolary Pamphlets
Nigerian epistolary pamphlets in the 1960s contained large quantities of reprinted material from globally circulating publications dating back to the early nineteenth century. Anachronistic English templates were offered to readers as models for copying in their own correspondence. This article argues that even when local authors copied English sources verbatim, they manifested anything but a passive duplication of metropolitan texts. Their relat…
Afterword
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
Histories of Dirt
Dirt redeployed
Screening dirt
From the inception of colonial film-making in British West Africa in the early 1930s, dirt and the cinema were closely connected. Numerous educational movies were produced to show Africans the economically, physically and morally degrading consequences of “dirty habits.” By the early 1940s, the Colonial Office had come to realise that, within the cinema spaces created by mobile health units across Africa, intended audiences processed images and m…
Putting dirt in its place
On January 12 2018, US President Donald Trump made headlines once again, this time with a statement about immigration. In a meeting in the Oval Office the previous day, he had asked the by now noto
Writing African Women
“How does our understanding of Africa shift when we begin from the perspective of women? What can the African perspective offer theories of culture and of gender difference? This work, as unique and insightful today as when it was first published, brings together a wide variety of African academics and other researchers to explore the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender. Beginning with a ground-breaking overview of Af…
The Last Laugh
Focusing on the complexity of local spectators’ responses to the simple ideological formulae of colonial health and hygiene films, this article asks about the ways in which the presence of local aesthetic tastes and values represented a vital third space of mediation alongside film content and filmmakers’ “authorial” objectives in the much-studied media archives on public health and hygiene in colonial Africa. The article argues that a host of co…
Introduction
Introduction:Ken Saro-Wiwa as Public Intellectual Stephanie Newell More than twenty years after his unnecessary death, Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941-95) continues to receive global recognition as an iconic figure, a "hero for our times" in the struggle for minority people's environmental and political rights (Brittain 5). Human rights agencies continue to cite his name in reports about the combined, ongoing failures of oil companies and the national govern…
Researching the Cultural Politics of Dirt in Urban Africa
This chapter reflects on the intellectual, ethical, and methodological challenges of a project on “The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa, 1880–present,” involving teams of researchers in Nairobi and Lagos. In addition to the challenges of translating interviews into English and ensuring continuity of fieldwork methods between Lagos and Nairobi, the possibilities and risks of a century-long cultural history are discussed, as well as the potentia…
Paradoxes of Press Freedom in Colonial West Africa
This article describes the shifts and contradictions in British approaches to the control of print media in colonial West Africa between the 1920s and 1940s. Well before the Colonial Office's post-war interventions to create an ‘enlightened and educated’ West African citizenry through mass education, decades of independent newspaper production in the region helped to shape independent and critical readerships. For the British, however, an upsurge…
Life Writing in the Colonial Archives
Commentators on Europe’s colonial archives often highlight the lack of coherence to be found in official and national repositories. Even within a single file, the archives do not simply, or only, yield evidence about imperial intentions and colonial subjects in Europe’s diverse territories. Focusing on secret files compiled in the 1930s and 1940s around the activities of the prominent Nigerian newspaper editor and later first president of Nigeria…
Reading across worlds
Afterword
Afterword
Julie Ward was among the group of tourists I travelled with in 1988 on the Hobo Trans-Africa truck. We set off from Dover in the freezing February weather and arrived in Nairobi five months later. All the way from Europe to East Africa we slept in small but sturdy tents that we pitched by the side of the road, and we cooked meals over an open fire in canteen saucepans. We all liked Julie. She was gentle without being a pushover, quiet without bei…
Popular Culture in Africa
The Power to Name
Between the 1880s and the 1940s, the region known as British West Africa became a dynamic zone of literary creativity and textual experimentation. African-owned newspapers offered local writers numerous opportunities to contribute material for publication, and editors repeatedly defined the press as a vehicle to host public debates rather than simply as an organ to disseminate news or editorial ideology. Literate locals responded with great zeal,…
Articulating Empire
Focussing on locally-owned newspapers in colonial West Africa, this essay presents a Mstory of reading in the colonies which experiments with reading beyond, or reading outside, the anti-colonial nationalist perspective that prevails over newspaper history. The essay asks what kind of 'information' about the values, attitudes, aspirations and articulations of diverse colonial readerships can be extrapolated from the indigenous press, and about th…
Local Cosmopolitans in Colonial West Africa
Historians of imperialism and postcolonial literary scholars have inherited a series of derogatory categories from colonial discourse, labels that were kept firmly in place by local elites in their anti-colonial cultural nationalism. In particular, in the colonial period the category of “mimic” was frequently used to keep distinctive social classes (and also ethnic groups) out of the political sphere. By continuing to recognize and debate mimicry…
West African Literatures
West African Literatures provides students with fresh, in-depth perspectives on the key debates in the field. The aim of this book is not to provide an authoritative, encyclopedic account, but to consider a selection of the region’s literatures in relation to prevailing discussions about literature and postcolonialism
Readings in African popular fiction
Postcolonial masculinities and the politics of visibility
Corresponding with the city
Contemporary West African self‐help literature is preoccupied with the theme of marriage. The reader's correct choice of marriage partner and subsequent happiness in the home are fundamental concerns of the genre. This article asks about the extent to which locally published self‐help literature – and popular literature more generally – is inseparable from urbanization in West Africa. Do these pamphlets arise as a direct consequence of urbanizati…
Making up their own minds
Reading is a situated 'social event', taking place in the context of collective 'assumptions about language and meaning' which condition an individual's interpretations. Before turning the first page of a popular novel, or watching the first scene of a theatrical performance, the 'reader' already occupies a culturally specific receptive position, and each instance of interpretation is likely to be informed by shared preconceptions about the funct…
Devotion and Domesticity
Drawing upon interviews with readers in Ghana and Nigeria as well as a large number of locally published marriage guidance pamphlets, this article considers attitudes toward the printed word among Christian readers in West Africa. Gender is an especially significant category in West African 'how-to' books, particularly those produced by Pentecostal and evangelical authors. While the majority of male authors try to reinstate Pauline strictures on …
Something to Hide? Anonymity and Pseudonyms in the Colonial West African Press
This article examines the wide range of anonymous and pseudonymous naming practices to be found in West African newspapers between the 1880s and 1930s, and asks about the shape of a West African history of anonymity as compared with recent histories of anonymity in European literature. The article also discusses the ways in which colonial West African uses of anonymity and pseudonyms challenge postcolonial scholarship on agency, subjectivity, res…
Newspapers, New Spaces, New Writers
The article focuses on a memoir, “My Experience in Cameroons during the War,” by J. G. Mullen, published in the Gold Coast Leader between 1916 and 1918. This memoir is unique for its status as a first-person narrative by an ordinary African clerk. Mullen’s narrative furnishes us with many insights into the educated, non-elite man’s imperial identity in the early twentieth century. Through it, we can discover precisely how a Ghanaian “native clerk…
Paracolonial' Networks Some Speculations on Local Readerships in Colonial West Africa
In studies of cross-cultural flows, postcolonial theorists often make reductive distinctions between the 'cosmopolitan' and the 'local', construing the cosmopolitan as an ideal value-free subject while the local is a parochial, conservative figure. This article attempts to historicize the concept of global cultural flows and to theorize the active role played by locals in the literary networks that grew up alongside British colonialism in West Af…
An Introduction to the Writings of J. G. Mullen, An African Clerk, in the Gold Coast Leader , 1916–19
J. G. Mullen was a Gold Coast clerk who published his memoirs, in instalments, in the Gold Coast Leader from 1916 to 1919. In this unusual narrative, he describes his adventures in Cameroon before and during the First World War. His account combines real-life geographical and social details with flamboyant tropes probably derived from imperial popular literature. Mullen's biography and even identity have so far been otherwise untraceable. His tex…
Life Writing in the Colonial Archives
Commentators on Europe’s colonial archives often highlight the lack of coherence to be found in official and national repositories. Even within a single file, the archives do not simply, or only, yield evidence about imperial intentions and colonial subjects in Europe’s diverse territories. Focusing on secret files compiled in the 1930s and 1940s around the activities of the prominent Nigerian newspaper editor and later first president of Nigeria…
Dirty Whites
This article examines a range of palm oil traders' literary works, published between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The traders' efforts to understand local tastes and patterns of consumption furnish us with rare information about the social and material effects of the palm oil trade on West African communities. These instances of white working-class writing reveal the ways in which some European traders in Africa developed te…
Local Cosmopolitans in Colonial West Africa
Historians of imperialism and postcolonial literary scholars have inherited a series of derogatory categories from colonial discourse, labels that were kept firmly in place by local elites in their anti-colonial cultural nationalism. In particular, in the colonial period the category of “mimic” was frequently used to keep distinctive social classes (and also ethnic groups) out of the political sphere. By continuing to recognize and debate mimicry…
Petrified Masculinities? Contemporary Nigerian Popular Literatures by Men
Difficult Women, Artful Lives
[Use corrected copy on S95 seasonal subdirectory]' Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society.' Stephen G. Nichols, Gerald Prince, and Wendy Steiner, Series Editors
The Work of Repetition in 1960s Nigerian Epistolary Pamphlets
Nigerian epistolary pamphlets in the 1960s contained large quantities of reprinted material from globally circulating publications dating back to the early nineteenth century. Anachronistic English templates were offered to readers as models for copying in their own correspondence. This article argues that even when local authors copied English sources verbatim, they manifested anything but a passive duplication of metropolitan texts. Their relat…
Afterword
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
Histories of Dirt
Screening dirt
From the inception of colonial film-making in British West Africa in the early 1930s, dirt and the cinema were closely connected. Numerous educational movies were produced to show Africans the economically, physically and morally degrading consequences of “dirty habits.” By the early 1940s, the Colonial Office had come to realise that, within the cinema spaces created by mobile health units across Africa, intended audiences processed images and m…
Putting dirt in its place
On January 12 2018, US President Donald Trump made headlines once again, this time with a statement about immigration. In a meeting in the Oval Office the previous day, he had asked the by now noto
The Last Laugh
Focusing on the complexity of local spectators’ responses to the simple ideological formulae of colonial health and hygiene films, this article asks about the ways in which the presence of local aesthetic tastes and values represented a vital third space of mediation alongside film content and filmmakers’ “authorial” objectives in the much-studied media archives on public health and hygiene in colonial Africa. The article argues that a host of co…
Remembering J. M. Stuart-Young of Onitsha, Colonial Nigeria
Colonial Onitsha provided the stage for John Moray Stuart-Young (1881–1939), a Manchester trader and poet, to perform the role of an educated gentleman. In his autobiographical writing, Stuart-Young created a host of famous metropolitan friends and constructed for himself a past through which he invited African readers to remember him. The extent to which Onitsha citizens accepted his version of his life is explored in this article, for during th…
‘Women in the African setting’… at the University of Stirling
"‘Women in the African setting’... at the University of Stirling." Wasafiri, 11(22), pp. 44–45
Conflict and Transformation in Bessie Head's A Question of Power, Serowe
Constructions of Nigerian women in popular literatures by men
(1996). Constructions of Nigerian women in popular literatures by men. African Languages and Cultures: Vol. 9, Gender and Population Culture, pp. 169-188
African and Caribbean Women
Petrified Masculinities? Contemporary Nigerian Popular Literatures by Men
Difficult Women, Artful Lives
[Use corrected copy on S95 seasonal subdirectory]' Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society.' Stephen G. Nichols, Gerald Prince, and Wendy Steiner, Series Editors
Making up their own minds
Reading is a situated 'social event', taking place in the context of collective 'assumptions about language and meaning' which condition an individual's interpretations. Before turning the first page of a popular novel, or watching the first scene of a theatrical performance, the 'reader' already occupies a culturally specific receptive position, and each instance of interpretation is likely to be informed by shared preconceptions about the funct…
Redefining Mimicry
Migration and mimicry have become key concepts in recent theoretical debates about the flows of people, ideas, and ideologies in the postcolonial world. Globalization theorists tend to focus upon the effects of Western popular culture as it permeates postcolonial societies. In response to the spread of mass-communications networks from Western cities into far-flung ex-colonial societies, theorists such as Ulf Hannerz and Arjun Appadurai have soug…
Literary activism in colonial Ghana
Paracolonial' Networks Some Speculations on Local Readerships in Colonial West Africa
In studies of cross-cultural flows, postcolonial theorists often make reductive distinctions between the 'cosmopolitan' and the 'local', construing the cosmopolitan as an ideal value-free subject while the local is a parochial, conservative figure. This article attempts to historicize the concept of global cultural flows and to theorize the active role played by locals in the literary networks that grew up alongside British colonialism in West Af…
Readings in African popular fiction
Remembering J. M. Stuart-Young of Onitsha, Colonial Nigeria
Colonial Onitsha provided the stage for John Moray Stuart-Young (1881–1939), a Manchester trader and poet, to perform the role of an educated gentleman. In his autobiographical writing, Stuart-Young created a host of famous metropolitan friends and constructed for himself a past through which he invited African readers to remember him. The extent to which Onitsha citizens accepted his version of his life is explored in this article, for during th…
Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana
Stephanie Newell. Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana: How to Play the Game of Life.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. x + 242 pp. Tables. Plates. Bibliography. Index. $22.95. Paper. Sean Hawkins. Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana: Encounter between the LoDagaa and The World on Paper.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xv + 468 pp. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. Here are two well-written…
Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana
Marita, or the Folly of Love
Wole Soyinka
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Devotion and Domesticity
Drawing upon interviews with readers in Ghana and Nigeria as well as a large number of locally published marriage guidance pamphlets, this article considers attitudes toward the printed word among Christian readers in West Africa. Gender is an especially significant category in West African 'how-to' books, particularly those produced by Pentecostal and evangelical authors. While the majority of male authors try to reinstate Pauline strictures on …
Feminism and the Complex Space of Women’s Writing
This chapter revolves around a tension, for as Mercy Amba Oduyoye observes, above, there is no ‘authentic ‘‘African woman’’ ‘ available for isolation and discussion as a singular entity: as she says, ‘all women are not one’ (ibid.). Nevertheless, Oduyoye’s refusal of African women’s singularity occurs in a book entitled Daughters of Anowa: African Women and Patriarchy (1995), in which she addresses women’s shared positionality as women and the wa…
Introduction Where is ‘West Africa’?
On the pages of a world atlas, it is relatively easy to recognize the vast land mass which faces the Atlantic Ocean in the south and stretches inland towards the Sahara Desert in the north (Map 1.1). The region known as West Africa is composed of approximately a dozen states with clearly demarcated national boundaries. Edged by sea and desert, the postcolonial countries that make up this region are linked together by their shared history of slave…
Conclusion
West African authors and intellectuals have exercised a powerful influence over the direction of postcolonialism since the 1960s. A striking feature of their work is their repeated insistence on the importance of the local and particular dimensions of African culture: their work tends to highlight culturally specific West African spaces which are situated ‘within and between things’, not easily rendered general or universally applicable to other …
‘Queering’ West African Literatures
This chapter focuses on the work of Calixthe Beyala (1961– ) from Cameroon, Werewere Liking (1950– ), who was born in Cameroon and lives in the Ivory Coast, and Ve ́ronique Tadjo (1955– ) from the Ivory Coast. Of all ‘third generation’ writers, these three francophone women seem to be the most forceful in their rejection of systems of classification and ‘-isms’, including feminism and Marxism, on the grounds that such discourses conceal more than…
Popular Literature
West Africa’s international and canonical texts are often less import- ant to local readers than the popular texts which are produced by local publishers and have been a feature of the region’s literary culture since the 1940s. This chapter considers this large body of popular literature, paying particular attention to the tastes, preferences, and aesthetic sensibilities of West African readers between the 1950s and the present day.
Oral Literatures
European-language writers like Senghor, Kane, Achebe and Soyinka are not the only professional authors in West Africa. The region is also dense with ‘ >griots> ’, who fulfill vital social and cultural roles as performers and interpreters, as praise-singers, oral historians, storytellers, singers, dancers, and drummers. Alongside these professional >griots , ordinary people also frequently participate in oral performances, singing a person’s prais…
Griots with Pens in their Hands Literary Experiments with Oral Genres, 1960s–1990s
Writers who choose to publish in the European languages are not cut of from their oral and vernacular literary heritage simply by their choice of linguistic medium. Focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, this chapter will discuss the ways in which, rather than existing in oppositional relationships, oral, vernacular, and Europhone literatures often interact with and inspire one another in West Africa. This is especially the case in the work of ‘second-ge…
West African Timeline
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