Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

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Barnard, Rita
Wits University Press
EAN: 9781868148011
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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.
EAN 9781868148011
ISBN 1868148017
Binding Ebook
Publisher Wits University Press
Publication date September 1, 2012
Pages 488
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Barnard, Rita; Dick, Archie L.; Distiller, Natasha; Flanery, Patrick Denman; Gouws, John; Graham, Lucy Valerie; Hofmeyr, Isabel; Kock, Leon de; Kriel, Lize; Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn; McDonald, Peter D.; Nuttall, Sarah; Opland, Jeff; Roux, Elizabeth le; Saint, Lily; Samuelson, Meg; Seddon, Deborah; Twidle, Hedley; Vlies, Andrew van der; Waal, Margriet van der; Zimbler, Jarad