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Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
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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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Release dateSep 1, 2012
ISBN9781868148011
Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
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Rita Barnard

Rita Barnard is Director of the Comparative Literature Programme and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

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