Histories of Dirt – Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos
Autor Stephanie Newellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 dec 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781478006435
ISBN-10: 1478006439
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 1478006439
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Cuprins
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
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
Notă biografică
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.