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Book history through postcolonial eyes : rewriting the script / Robert Fraser.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) Z8.S64 F73 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fraser, Robert, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books--South Asia--History.
- Books.
- Books--Africa--History.
- Printing--South Asia--History.
- Printing.
- Printing--Africa--History.
- Written communication--South Asia--History.
- Written communication.
- Written communication--Africa--History.
- Book industries and trade--South Asia--History.
- Book industries and trade.
- Book industries and trade--Africa--History.
- Transmission of texts.
- Oral tradition.
- History.
- Africa.
- South Asia.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Summary:
- This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way.
- Robert Fraser proposes that we now look beyond the traditional methods of the Anglo-European bibliographic paradigm, and learn to appreciate instead the diversity of shapes that verbal expression has assumed across different societies. This change of attitude will encourage students and researchers to question developmentally conceived models of communication, and move instead to a re-formulation of just what is meant by a book, an author, a text.
- Fraser illustrates his combined approach with comparative case studies of print, script and speech cultures in South Asia and Africa, before panning out to examine conflicts and paradoxes arising in parallel contexts. The re-orientation of approach and the freshness of view offered by this volume will foster understanding and creative collaboration between scholars of different outlooks, while offering a radical critique to those identified in its concluding section as purveyors of global literary power.
- Contents:
- The problematics of print
- Scripts and manuscripts
- Transmitting the word in South Asia
- Transmitting the word in Africa
- Resistance and adaptation
- Communication and authority
- Licensed snoopers and literary protestors
- The power of the consumer.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-201) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780415402934
- 041540293X
- 9780415402941
- 0415402948
- 9780203888117
- 0203888111
- 9780203091036
- 0203091035
- OCLC:
- 191846764
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