Hidden History of South Africa''s Book and Reading Cultures

Informationen zum Autor Archie L. Dick is a professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria. Klappentext Through this innovative methodology, Dick aptly shows how South African readers used reading and books to resist unjust regimes and build community across South Africa's class and racial barriers. Zusammenfassung Through this innovative methodology! Dick aptly shows how South African readers used reading and books to resist unjust regimes and build community across South Africa's class and racial barriers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Significance of Common Readers in South Africa 1 Early Readers at the Cape, 1658-1800 2 Literacy, Class, and Regulating Reading, 1800-1850 3 The Women's Building of Nations: History Books in the Early Twentieth Century 4 Books for Troops in the Second World War 5 Politics and the Libraries, Part One: Book Theft, Intellectual Fraud, and Book Burning, 1950-1971 6 Politics and the Libraries, Part Two: Dissident Readers and Librarians in the 1980s Townships 7 Reading in Exile after Soweto, 1978-1992 8 Combating Censorship and Making Space for Books Conclusion: Revealing the Hidden Books and Hidden Readers Notes Index

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Archie L. Dick is a professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria.

Product details

• Authors: Archie Dick, Archie L Dick, Archie L. Dick
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.03.2013
• EAN: 9781442615922
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-1592-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture; Studies in Book & Print Cultur; Studies in Book and Print Cult; Studies in Book and Print Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Kulturwissenschaften, Südafrika, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein