Archie L Dick

The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures

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Produktbeschreibung

Through this innovative methodology, Dick aptly shows how South African readers used reading and books to resist unjust regimes and build community across South Africa's class and racial barriers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781442615922
• ISBN-10: 1442615923
• Artikelnr.: 37184539

Autorenporträt

Archie L. Dick is a professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Pretoria.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Significance of Common Readers in South Africa
1 Early Readers at the Cape, 1658-1800
2 Literacy, Class, and Regulating Reading, 1800-1850
3 The Women's Building of Nations: History Books in the Early Twentieth
Century
4 Books for Troops in the Second World War
5 Politics and the Libraries, Part One: Book Theft, Intellectual Fraud, and
Book Burning, 1950-1971
6 Politics and the Libraries, Part Two: Dissident Readers and Librarians in
the 1980s Townships
7 Reading in Exile after Soweto, 1978-1992
8 Combating Censorship and Making Space for Books
Conclusion: Revealing the Hidden Books and Hidden Readers
Notes
Index