Print, text and book cultures in South Africa / edited by Andrew van der Vlies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van der Vlies, Andrew, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South African literature--History and criticism.

South African literature.

South African literature--Publishing.

Books and reading--South Africa.

Books and reading.

Publishers and publishing--South Africa.

Publishers and publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 476 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2012.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Questions of the archive and the uses of books. Colin Rae's Malaboch: the power of the book in the (mis)representation of Kgaluši Sekete Mmalebôhô / Lize Kriel ; "Send your books on active service": the books for troops scheme during the Second World War, 1939-1945 / Archie L. Dick ; From The origin of language to a language of origin: a prologue to the Grey Collection / Hedley Twidle

Orature, image, text. The image of the book in Xhosa oral poetry / Jeff Opland ; Written out, writing in: orature in the South African literary canon / Deborah Seddon ; Not Western: race, reading and the South African photocomic / Lily Saint

Ideological exigencies and the fates of books. The politics of obscenity: Lady Chatterley's lover and the Apartheid state / Peter D. McDonald ; "Deeply racist, superior and patronising": South African literature education and the "Gordimer incident" / Margriet van der Waal ; Begging the questions: producing Shakespeare for post-Apartheid South African schools / Natasha Distiller

New directions. The rise of the surface: emerging questions for reading and criticism in South Africa / Sarah Nuttall ; Sailing in a smaller ship: publishing art books in South Africa / Bronwyn Law-Viljoen ; The university as publisher: towards a history of South African University Presses / Elizabeth Le Roux.

Introductory. Print, text and books in South Africa / Andrew van der Vlies

Print cultures and colonial public spheres. Metonymies of lead: bullets, type and print culture in South African missionary colonialism / Leon de Kock ; "Spread far and wide over the surface of the Earth": Evangelical reading formations and the rise of a transnational public sphere: the case of the Cape Town Ladies' Bible Association / Isabel Hofmeyer ; Textual circuits and intimate relations: a community of letters across the Indian Ocean / Meg Samuelson

Local/global: South African writing and global imaginaries. Deneys Reitz and imperial co-option / John Gouws ; "Consequential changes": Daphne Rooke's Mittee in America and South Africa / Lucy Valerie Graham ; Oprah's paton, or South Africa and the globalisation of suffering / Rita Barnard

Three ways of looking at Coetzee. In (or from) the heart of the country: local and global lives of Coetzee's anti-pastoral / Andrew van der Vlies ; Under local eyes: the South African publishing context of J.M. Coetzee's Foe / Jarad Zimbler ; Limber: the flexibilities of post-Nobel Coetzee / Patrick Denman Flanery

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 May 2018).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-86814-593-X

OCLC:

1016791386