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Print, Text and Book Cultures in South a
Contributor(s): Vlies, Andrew Van Der (Author), Kock, Leon De (Contribution by), Dick, Archie L. (Contribution by)

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 ISBN: 1868145662     ISBN-13: 9781868145669
Publisher: Wits University Press
OUR PRICE: $38.00  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | African
- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading
- Social Science | Media Studies
LCCN: 2012534432
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.7" W x 9.4" L (1.80 lbs) 488 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Kock, Leon De: - Leon de Kock is Senior Research Associate in the Department of English at the University of Johannesburg. He is a poet, translator, essayist, and occasional writer of fiction. His writing includes the novel, Bad Sex (2011); three volumes of poetry: Bloodsong (1997), Gone to the Edges (2006), Bodyhood (2010); several works of literary translation, and academic books.Van Der Vlies, Andrew: - Andrew van der Vlies is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, and Research Associate in the Department of English Literature at Rhodes University, Grahamstown. His areas of expertise include South African literatures and literary cultures, Anglophone postcolonial writing, and print and book histories. He is a literary critic, historian and cultural sociologist, and author of South African Textual Cultures (2010). He reviews regularly for various publications such as the Times Literary Supplement and Art South Africa.Dick, Archie L.: - Archie L. Dick is a Professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria.Distiller, Natasha: - Natasha Distiller is Research Associate in the Institute for the Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.Denman Flanery, Patrick: - Patrick Denman Flanery is professor of Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London.
 
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