"West African Writings and Pan-African Networks: Black Periodicals and Print Culture in the Late- Victorian British Empire"

这个项目将研究黑人的视角：在维多利亚时代晚期（1880-1910），英国和英国殖民地的期刊和报纸网络（'ctl00$oSaveBar$btnNext','）。虽然该项目将考虑其他形式的文学和写作，但在新闻业的“黄金时代”和技术进步、全球化的媒体中，重点仍将放在期刊和报纸上。我的研究将定位、分析和优先考虑黑人的贡献和著作，以了解在一个不断扩张的帝国中，泛非洲主义的早期网络和倡导。虽然试图了解整个帝国的黑人报纸和期刊网络，但本研究将主要关注西非，特别关注塞拉利昂和拉各斯，这两个世界性的殖民地对泛非运动尤为重要。本论文将通过分析流行的和不太知名的英国出版物以及西非英语报刊，为期刊研究的非殖民化做出学术贡献。我的研究将结合英国文化中黑人和非洲人的观点，与不太知名和更广为人知的英国黑人知识分子，如爱德华·布莱顿、非洲人比尔·霍顿和奥里沙图克·法杜玛。对于这个项目来说，机构之外的可访问性是必不可少的，所以我的论文将纳入一个网站，该网站绘制并包括这些西非人和黑人英国人的作品，以便了解维多利亚时代一个经常被忽视的泛非社区。由于这些期刊和报纸中的许多只存在于数据库或档案中，特别是来自西非的期刊和报纸，因此该网站将致力于提供这些文章的摘录，以改善学术界以外的人的可及性。我将向大家展示，在维多利亚时代的最后几年里，黑人作家利用期刊来建立新的网络和理解种族的新方式，期刊作为殖民权力强加的关键，本身已经被“散乱”、解构和重建。

This project will examine Black perspecjavascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$oSaveBar$btnNext','')tives in periodical and newspaper networks in Great Britain and theBritish colonies during the late Victorian era (1880-1910). While the project will consider other forms ofliterature and writings, the focus will remain on periodicals and newspapers amidst the "golden age" of journalism and a technologically advancing, globalizing media. My research will locate, analyze, and prioritizeBlack contributions and writings in order to understand early networks and advocacy for-and against-Pan-Africanism in an expanding empire. While the attempt is to understand Black newspapers and periodicalnetworks across the empire, this study will focus primarily on West Africa, with a particular focus on SierraLeone and Lagos, two cosmopolitan colonies particularly significant for the Pan-African movement. This thesiswill contribute to the scholarly imperative to decolonize periodical studies by analyzing popular and lesser-known Great Britain publications alongside West African Anglophone newspapers and periodicals. Myresearch will incorporate perspectives of Blackness and African-ness in British culture with lesser-known andmore widely known Black British intellectuals like Edward Blyden, Africanus Beale Horton, and OrishatukehFaduma. Accessibility beyond the institution is imperative for this project, so my dissertation will incorporate awebsite that maps and includes writings by these West Africans and Black Britons in order to understand anoften-overlooked Pan-African community in the Victorian era. As many of these periodicals and newspapersexist only in databases or archives, particularly those from West Africa, the website will aim to provideexcerpts to these writings in order to improve accessibility to people beyond academia. I will show thatperiodicals, so key to the imposition of colonial power, were themselves already being 'undisciplined', deconstructed, and reconstructed, as Black writers used them to generate new networks and new ways ofunderstanding race in the closing years of the Victorian era.