Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

An explanation of the unique role of the book and book collecting in South Africa due to the apartheidThis 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. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, 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; book- collecting and libraries; print and transnationalism; Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms; books in war; how the fates of South African texts, locally and globally, have been affected by their material instantiations; photocomics and other ephemera; censorship, during and after apartheid; books about art and books as art; local academic publishing; and the challenge of 'book history' for literary and cultural criticism in contemporary South Africa.

1 Print, Text and Books in South AfricaAndrew van der Vlies2.1 Metonymies of Lead: Bullets, Type and Print Culture in South African Missionary ColonialismLe on de Kock2.2 "Spread Far and Wide over the Surface of the Earth": Evangelical Reading Formations and the Rise of a Transnational Public Sphere: The Case of the Cape Town Ladies' Bible AssociationIsabel Hofmeyr2.3 Textual Circuits and Intimate Relations: A Community of Letters across the Indian OceanMeg Samuelson3.1 Deneys Reitz and Imperial Co-optionJohn Gouws3.2 "Consequential Changes": Daphne Rooke's Mittee in America and South AfricaLuc y Valerie Graham3.3 Oprah's Paton, or South Africa and the Globalisation of SufferingRita Barnard4.1 In (or From) the Heart of the Country: Local and Global Lives of Coetzee's Anti-pastoralAndrew van der Vlies4.2 Under Local Eyes: The South African Publishing Context of J. M. Coetzee's FoeJarad Zimbler4.3 Limber: The Flexibilities of Post-Nobel CoetzeePatrick Denman Flanery5.1 Colin Rae's Malaboch: The Power of the Book in the (Mis)Representation of KgaluSi Sekete MmalebohoLize Kriel5.2 "Send Your Books on Active Service": The Books for Troops Scheme during the Second World War, 1939-1945Archie L. Dick5.3 From The Origin of Language to a Language of Origin: A Prologue to the Grey CollectionHedley Twidle6.1 The Image of the Book in Xhosa Oral PoetryJeff Opland6.2 Written Out, Writing In: Orature in the South African Literary CanonDeborah Seddon6.3 Not Western: Race, Reading and the South African PhotocomicLily Saint7.1 The Politics of Obscenity: Lady Chatterley's Lover and the Apartheid StatePeter D. McDonald7.2 "Deeply Racist, Superior and Patronising": South African Literature Education and the "Gordimer Incident"Margriet van der Waal7.3 Begging the Questions: Producing Shakespeare for Post-apartheid South African SchoolsNatasha Distiller8.1 The Rise of the Surface: Emerging Questions for Reading and Criticism in South AfricaSarah Nuttall8.2 Sailing a Smaller Ship: Publishing Art Books in South AfricaBronwyn Law -Viljoen8.3 The University as Publisher: Towards a History of South African University PressesElizabeth le Roux