{"product_id":"print-text-and-book-cultures-in-south-a-9781868145669","title":"Print, Text and Book Cultures in South a","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Andrew Van Der Vlies | Leon De Kock | Archie L. Dick\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wits University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wits University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: African\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn explanation of the unique role of the book and book collecting in South Africa due to the apartheid \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.","brand":"Wits University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47599472935063,"sku":"9781868145669","price":4161.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781868145669.webp?v=1775004577","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/print-text-and-book-cultures-in-south-a-9781868145669","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}