The hidden history of South Africa's book and reading cultures / Archie L. Dick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dick, Archie L., author.

Series:

Studies in book and print culture.

Studies in Book and Print Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading.

Books and reading--Political aspects--South Africa--History.

South Africans--Books and reading--History.

South Africans.

South Africa--Intellectual life.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By looking to records from a slave lodge, women's associations, army education units, universities, courts, libraries, prison departments, and political groups, Archie Dick exposes the key works of fiction and non-fiction, magazines, and newspapers that were read and discussed by political activists and prisoners. Uncovering the book and library schemes that elites used to regulate reading, Dick exposes incidences of intellectual fraud, book theft, censorship, and book burning. 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."--Pub. desc.

"The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans; strategies that have been hidden until now for political reasons relating to the country's liberation struggles.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 23, 2016).

ISBN:

9781442695085

1442695080

9781442695078

1442695072

OCLC:

799730310