Print, text and book cultures in South Africa

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Title:	Print, text and book cultures in South Africa
Author:	Van der Vlies, Andrew
Year:	2012
Pages:	476
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Johannesburg
Publisher:	Wits University Press
ISBN:	1868145662; 9781868145669; 9781868145935
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	literature publishing
About person:	John Maxwell Coetzee (1940-)
Abstract:	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. It consists of eight parts: 1. Introductory; 2. Print cultures and colonial public spheres; 3. Local/global: South African writing and global imaginaries; 4. Three ways of looking at Coetzee; 5. Questions of the archive and the uses of books; 6. Orature, image, text; 7. Ideological exigencies and the fates of books; 8. New directions. Some of the essays appeared (many revised or rewritten) in earlier publications, others are original. Contributors: Andrew van der Vlies, Archie L. Dick, Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Deborah Seddon, Elizabeth le Roux, Jarad Zimbler, Hedley Twidle, Isabel Hofmeyr, Jeff Opland, John Gouws, Leon de Kock, Lily Saint, Lize Kriel, Lucy Valerie Graham, Margriet van der Waal, Meg Samuelson, Natasha Distiller, Patrick Denman Flanery, Peter D. McDonald, Rita Barnard, Sarah Nuttall. [ASC Leiden abstract]