Orality, literacy, and digitality are forms of knowledge and communication based on speech,
reading and writing, and electronic technologies using binary formats, respectively. This …

This article utilizes a postcolonial theoretical framework to challenge and unsettle the ways
in which media has been historicized in media studies where the time of the North Atlantic …

Knowledge has become a central problematic in recent work on cross-cultural encounters
and the processes of empire building. In an array of contexts—from Spanish America to …

When early nineteenth-century critics wished to indicate the potential influence and
longevity of their favourite contemporary authors, they turned to the map of the colonised …

A growing literature explores the varying role of print media in the colonial world and the
new types of publics such newspapers and periodicals produced. However, this literature …

As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical to articulations of
imperial authority and justifications of conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the …

The dissemination of the Piccaninny type critically depended on the print media whose
development coincided with, and underpinned, colonial modernity. Racialized child types …

Like metropolitan France, the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue experienced a media
revolution during the first four years of the French Revolution. In 1789, there was only one …

This study examines a network of writers that coalesced around the publication of The
History of Mary Prince (1831), which recounts Prince's experiences as an enslaved person …

This article explores how “Western” mechanical printing figured prominently in the
expansion of imperialists' interests in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Korea as both the main …