Print, Text and Book Cultures in South a - Vlies, Andrew van der
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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 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; print and transnationalism; Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms; books in war; local academic publishing; and the challenge of 'book history' for literary and cultural criticism in contemporary South Africa.…mehr

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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 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; print and transnationalism; Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms; books in war; local academic publishing; and the challenge of 'book history' for literary and cultural criticism in contemporary South Africa.
Autorenporträt
Andrew van der Vlies is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, and Research Associate in the Department of English Literature at Rhodes University, Grahamstown. His areas of expertise include South African literatures and literary cultures, Anglophone postcolonial writing, and print and book histories. He is a literary critic, historian and cultural sociologist, and author of South African Textual Cultures (2010). He reviews regularly for various publications such as the Times Literary Supplement and Art South Africa.