Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations and acronyms
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1 - Introductory
pp 1-1
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1.1 Print, Text and Books in South Africa
pp 2-48
- By Andrew van der Vlies, educated at Rhodes University in Grahamstown and at the University of Oxford.
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2 - Print Cultures and Colonial Public Spheres
pp 49-49
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2.1 Metonymies of Lead: Bullets, Type and Print Culture in South African Missionary Colonialism
pp 50-73
- By Leon De Kock, Professor of English at the University of Stellenbosch
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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
pp 74-86
- By Isabel Hofmeyr, Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg
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2.3 Textual Circuits and Intimate Relations: A Community of Letters across the Indian Ocean
pp 87-108
- By Meg Samuelson, Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Stellenbosch
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3 - Local/Global: South African Writing and Global Imaginaries
pp 109-109
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3.1 Deneys Reitz and Imperial Co-option
pp 110-120
- By John Gouws, educated at Rhodes and Oxford Universities, and taught at the Universities of Leeds, Cape Town
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3.2 “Consequential Changes”: Daphne Rooke's Mittee in America and South Africa
pp 121-139
- By Lucy Valerie Graham, Lecturer in the Department of English at Stellenbosch University
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3.3 Oprah's Paton, or South Africa and the Globalisation of Suffering
pp 140-164
- By Rita Barnard, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania
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4 - Three Ways of Looking at Coetzee
pp 165-165
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4.1 In (or From) the Heart of the Country: Local and Global Lives of Coetzee's Anti-pastoral
pp 166-194
- By Andrew van der Vlies, educated at Rhodes University in Grahamstown and at the University of Oxford.
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4.2 Under Local Eyes: The South African Publishing Context of J. M. Coetzee's Foe
pp 195-207
- By Jarad Zimbler, born and raised in Johannesburg, is a graduate of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
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4.3 Limber: The Flexibilities of Post-Nobel Coetzee
pp 208-224
- By Patrick Denman Flanery, critic and novelist. A graduate of Tisch School of the Arts at New York University
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5 - Questions of the Archive and the Uses of Books
pp 225-225
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5.1 Colin Rae's Malaboch: The Power of the Book in the (Mis)Representation of Kgaluši Sekete Mmalebôhô
pp 226-239
- By Lize Kriel, Associate Professor in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria
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5.2 “Send Your Books on Active Service”: The Books for Troops Scheme during the Second World War, 1939–1945
pp 240-251
- By Archie L. Dick, Professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria
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5.3 From The Origin of Language to a Language of Origin: A Prologue to the Grey Collection
pp 252-284
- By Hedley Twidle, Namaqualand and outside Johannesburg, studied at Oxford, Edinburgh and York
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6 - Orature, Image, Text
pp 285-285
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6.1 The Image of the Book in Xhosa Oral Poetry
pp 286-305
- By Jeff Opland, recently been a Visiting Professor of African Language Literatures at the School of Oriental and African Studies
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6.2 Written Out, Writing In: Orature in the South African Literary|Canon
pp 306-324
- By Deborah Seddon, Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Rhodes University in Grahamstown
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6.3 Not Western: Race, Reading and the South African Photocomic
pp 325-346
- By Lily Saint, PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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7 - Ideological Exigencies and the Fates of Books
pp 347-347
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7.1 The Politics of Obscenity: Lady Chatterley's Lover and the Apartheid State
pp 348-368
- By Peter D. McDonald, Fellow in English at St Hugh's College
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7.2 “Deeply Racist, Superior and Patronising”: South African Literature Education and the “Gordimer Incident”
pp 369-385
- By Margriet van der Waal, Assistant Professor of Euroculture/Arts
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7.3 Begging the Questions: Producing Shakespeare for Post-apartheid South African Schools
pp 386-406
- By Natasha Distiller, Research Associate at the Institute for the Humanities in Africa
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