Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

Informationen zum Autor Andrew van der Vlies Klappentext 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 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; print and transnationalism; Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms; books in war; local academic publishing; and the challenge of 'book history' for literary and cultural criticism in contemporary South Africa. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Print cultures and colonial public spheres; local/global: south african writing and global imaginaries; three ways of looking at coetzee; questions of the archive and the uses of books; orature! image! text; ideological exigencies and the fates of books; new directions.

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• Authors: Rita Barnard, Archie L. Dick, Natasha Distiller, Patrick Denman Flanery, John Gouws, Lucy Valerie Graham, Isabel Hofmeyr, Leon Kock, Lize Kriel, Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Andrew (EDT) Van Der Vlies, Andrew van der Vlies
• Assisted by: Andrew van der Vlies (Editor), Andrew van der Vlies (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2013
• EAN: 9781868145669
• ISBN: 978-1-86814-566-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science