Book history through postcolonial eyes : rewriting the script / Robert Fraser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraser, Robert, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book industries and trade--Africa--History.

Book industries and trade--South Asia--History.

Books--Africa--History.

Books--South Asia--History.

Oral tradition.

Printing--Africa--History.

Printing--South Asia--History.

Transmission of texts.

Written communication--Africa--History.

Written communication--South Asia--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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 t

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations of archival sources; Part I Repositionings; 1 The problematics of print; 2 Scripts and manuscripts; Part II Places; 3 Transmitting the word in South Asia; 4 Transmitting the word in Africa; Part III Powers; 5 Resistance and adaptation; 6 Communication and authority; 7 Licensed snoopers and literary protestors; 8 The power of the consumer; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-14228-5

1-281-75365-3

9786611753658

0-203-88811-1

OCLC:

256764471