Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
- ISBN-10
- 1868148017
- ISBN-13
- 9781868148011
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 488
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-09-01
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Author
- Andrew van der Vlies
Description
An explanation of the unique role of the book and book collecting in South Africa due to the apartheid 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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