Robert Fraser

Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes (eBook, PDF)

Rewriting the Script

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way. Fraser illustrates his combined approach with comparative case studies of print, script and speech cultures in South Asia and Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134142286
• Artikelnr.: 43071139

Autorenporträt

Robert Fraser has published books on Proust, J.G. Frazer, Ben Okri, African poetry and postcolonial fiction. He is co-editor with Mary Hammond of the two-volume Books Without Borders (2008), and also enjoys a parallel career as a biographer. Professor of English at the Open University, he is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Repositionings 1. The Problematics of Print 2. Scripts and
Manuscripts Part 2: Places 3. Transmitting the Word in South Asia 4.
Transmitting the Word in Africa Part 3: Powers 5. Resistance and Adaptation
6. Communication and Authority 7. Licensed Policeman and Literary
Protestors 8. The Power of the Consumer. Works Cited and Bibliography