ISBN:
9781478015123
,
9781478017745
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 121 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hofmeyr, Isabel Dockside reading
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hofmeyr, Isabel, 1953 - Dockside Reading
DDC:
382/.70941
Keywords:
Zoll
;
Zollrecht
;
Kolonialismus
;
Druckerzeugnis
;
Meinungsfreiheit
;
Großbritannien
;
Südafrika
;
Customs inspection Colonies
;
Customhouses Colonies
;
Books and reading
;
Censorship Colonies
;
Copyright Colonies
;
Marks of origin Social aspects
;
Postcolonialism
;
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
;
HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa
;
Great Britain Colonies
;
Administration
;
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) Politics and government 1872-1910
;
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) Politics and government 1910-1994
Abstract:
Introduction: Hydrocolonialism : the view from the dockside -- The custom house and hydrocolonial governance -- Customs and objects on a hydrocolonial frontier -- Copyright on a hydrocolonial frontier -- Censorship on a hydrocolonial frontier -- Conclusion: Dockside genres and postcolonial literature.
Abstract:
"In Dockside Reading Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationship between print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial custom house. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dockside customs officials would leaf through publications looking for obscenity, politically objectionable materials, or reprints of British copyrighted works, often dumping these condemned goods into the water. These practices, echoing other colonial imaginaries of the ocean as a space for erasing incriminating evidence of the violence of empire, informed later censorship regimes under Apartheid in South Africa. By tracking printed matter from ship to shore, Hofmeyr shows how literary institutions like copyright and censorship were shaped by colonial control of coastal waters. Set in the environmental context of the colonial port city, Dockside Reading explores how imperialism colonizes water. Hofmeyr examines this theme through the concept of hydrocolonialism, which puts together land and sea, empire and environment."
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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