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Title: | Projected Moralities, Engaged Anxieties: Northern Rhodesia's Reading Publics, 1953-1964 |
Author: | Kallmann, Deborah |
Year: | 1999 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
Volume: | 32 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 71-117 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zambia |
Subjects: | press images Literature, Mass Media and the Press colonialism History and Exploration Women's Issues mass media Equality and Liberation |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/220806 |
Abstract: | This essay is concerned with how textual projections of social moralities in a European newspaper produced in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), became the subject of 're-projections' and 'engagements' in two subsequent African newspapers. 'Projections' here are images and discourses that newspapers use to portray certain social ideals, particularly those within gender, class and race. The author focuses on projections found in women's pages, advertisements, letters to the editor, and advice columns. The newspapers used include 'The Northern News', a European newspaper produced from 1943 to 1965; 'The Northern Star', a Catholic African newspaper that ran for twenty months from 1963 to 1964; and the 'African Mail', a weekly African paper that ran from July 11, 1961, to February 20, 1962, and was continued as the 'Central African Mail' from February 27, 1962, to July 30, 1965. By highlighting the imagery around hygiene, domesticity, romance, and work, the author shows how using newspapers as evidence contributes to understanding the late colonial period in Northern Rhodesia, and brings insight to how men and women in the growing urban centres attempted to forge new social relationships. Notes, ref. |