Book History in Southern Africa: What is it and Why Should it Interest Historians?

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Title:	Book History in Southern Africa: What is it and Why Should it Interest Historians?
Authors:	Hofmeyr, Isabel Kriel, Lize
Year:	2006
Periodical:	South African Historical Journal
Issue:	55
Pages:	1-19
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	book industry publishing reading librarianship literature Afrikaans language cultural history History and Exploration
External link:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582470609464927
Abstract:	The articles collected here represent different approaches to the history of the book in South Africa. In their introductory paper, Isabel Hofmeyr and Lize Kriel examine the question of what book history is and why it should interest historians. The article by Andrew van der Vlies on the lives of Alan Paton's 'Cry, the beloved country' examines how a text functions in a transnational economy and how, through this movement of symbolic capital, a particular idea of 'South Africa' is created in a global arena. Archie L. Dick looks at the historiography of library history and South Africa's reading culture. Francis Galloway and Rudi M.R. Venter pay attention to Afrikaans fiction production during the transitional period (1990-2003). [ASC Leiden abstract]