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.
Зміст
1 Print, Text and Books in South Africa
Andrew van der Vlies
2.1 Metonymies of Lead: Bullets, Type and Print Culture in South African Missionary Colonialism
Le on de Kock
2.2 “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 Hofmeyr
2.3 Textual Circuits and Intimate Relations: A Community of Letters across the Indian Ocean
Meg Samuelson
3.1 Deneys Reitz and Imperial Co-option
John Gouws
3.2 “Consequential Changes”: Daphne Rooke’s Mittee in America and South Africa
Luc y Valerie Graham
3.3 Oprah’s Paton, or South Africa and the Globalisation of Suffering
Rita Barnard
4.1 In (or From) the Heart of the Country: Local and Global Lives of Coetzee’s Anti-pastoral
Andrew van der Vlies
4.2 Under Local Eyes: The South African Publishing Context of J. M. Coetzee’s Foe
Jarad Zimbler
4.3 Limber: The Flexibilities of Post-Nobel Coetzee
Patrick Denman Flanery
5.1 Colin Rae’s Malaboch: The Power of the Book in the (Mis)Representation of Kgaluši Sekete Mmaleboho
Lize Kriel
5.2 “Send Your Books on Active Service”: The Books for Troops Scheme during the Second World War, 1939–1945
Archie L. Dick
5.3 From The Origin of Language to a Language of Origin: A Prologue to the Grey Collection
Hedley Twidle
6.1 The Image of the Book in Xhosa Oral Poetry
Jeff Opland
6.2 Written Out, Writing In: Orature in the South African Literary Canon
Deborah Seddon
6.3 Not Western: Race, Reading and the South African Photocomic
Lily Saint
7.1 The Politics of Obscenity: Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the Apartheid State
Peter D. Mc Donald
7.2 “Deeply Racist, Superior and Patronising”: South African Literature Education and the “Gordimer Incident”
Margriet van der Waal
7.3 Begging the Questions: Producing Shakespeare for Post-apartheid South African Schools
Natasha Distiller
8.1 The Rise of the Surface: Emerging Questions for Reading and Criticism in South Africa
Sarah Nuttall
8.2 Sailing a Smaller Ship: Publishing Art Books in South Africa
Bronwyn Law –Viljoen
8.3 The University as Publisher: Towards a History of South African University Presses
Elizabeth le Roux
Про автора
Jarad Zimbler is Lecturer in Modern English Literature at the University of Birmingham.
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