Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa(English, Paperback, Vlies Andrew van der)

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Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa(English, Paperback, Vlies Andrew van der) is written by Vlies Andrew van der and published by Wits University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1868145662 (ISBN 10) and 9781868145669 (ISBN 13).

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.