ISBN:
9781868145935
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 476 pages)
DDC:
002.09682
Keywords:
Literatur
;
Mündliche Literatur
;
Buch
;
Südafrika
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 May 2018)
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781868145935/type/BOOK
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