Newell Histories of Dirt

Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0706-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newell, Stephanie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.