Rita Barnard, Leon de Kock, Archie L. Dick, Natasha Distiller, Patrick Denman Flanery, John Gouws, Lucy Valerie Graham, Isabel Hofmeyr, Lize Kriel, Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Elizabeth le Roux, Peter D. McDonald, Sarah Nuttall, Jeff Opland, Lily Saint, Meg Samuelson, Deborah Seddon, Hedley Twidle, Andrew van der Vlies, Margriet van der Waal, Jarad Zimbler Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

Annotation

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.