Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa Paperback / softback
by Rita Barnard, Leon Kock, Archie L. Dick, Natasha Distiller, Patrick Denman Flanery, John Gouws, Lucy Valerie Graham, Isabel Hofmeyr, Lize Kriel, Bronwyn Law-Viljoen
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This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives - historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies.
The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as varied as: the role of print cultures in contests over the nature of the colonial public sphere in the nineteenth century; orthography; iimbongi, orature and the canon; book-collecting and libraries; print and transnationalism; Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms; books in war; how the fates of South African texts, locally and globally, have been affected by their material instantiations; photocomics and other ephemera; censorship, during and after apartheid; books about art and books as art; local academic publishing; and the challenge of 'book history' for literary and cultural criticism in contemporary South Africa.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:488 pages
- Publisher:Wits University Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2012
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- ISBN:9781868145669
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:488 pages
- Publisher:Wits University Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781868145669