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Newspapers, new spaces, new writers: the First World War and print culture in colonial Ghana
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posted on 2023-06-08, 08:05 authored by Stephanie NewellThe 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. Mullens narrative furnishes us with many insights into the educated, non-elite mans imperial identity in the early twentieth century. Through it, we can discover precisely how a Ghanaian native clerk articulated his imperial subjectivity, his race-consciousness, his perception of social class in the colonies, his patriotism, and his need for existential (if not political) freedoms during the war.
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Research in African LiteraturesISSN
0034-5210Publisher
Indiana University PressPublisher URL
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2Volume
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1-15Pages
15.0Department affiliated with
- English Publications
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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