Reading Spaces in South Africa, 1850–1920s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Spaces in South Africa, 1850–1920s write by Archie L. Dick. This book was released on 2020-11-26. Reading Spaces in South Africa, 1850–1920s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Voluntary societies and government initiatives stimulated the growth of reading communities in South Africa in the second half of the nineteenth century. A system of Parliamentary grants to establish public libraries in country towns and villages nurtured a lively reading culture. A condition was that the library should be open free-of-charge to the general public. This became one more reading space, and others included book societies, reading societies, literary societies, debating societies, mechanics institutes, and mutual improvement societies. This Element explains how reading communities used these spaces to promote cultural and literary development in a unique ethos of improvement, and to raise political awareness in South Africa's colonial transition to a Union government and racial segregation.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures write by Toral Jatin Gajarawala. This book was released on 2023-08-10. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The texts that make up postcolonial print cultures are often found outside the archival catalogue, and in lesser-examined repositories such as personal collections, the streets, or appendages to established collections. This volume examines the published and unpublished writing, magazines, pamphlets, paratexts, advertisements, cartoons, radio, and street art that serve as the intellectual forces behind opposition to colonial orders, as meditations on the futures of embryonic nation states, and as visions of new forms of equality. The print cultures examined here are necessarily anti-institutional; they serve as a counterpoint to the colonial archive and, relatedly, to more traditional genres and text formats coming out of large-scale publishers. This means that much of the primary material analyzed in this book has not been scrutinized before. Many of these print productions articulate collective liberation projects with origins in the grassroots. They include debates around the shape of the postcolonial nation and the new state formation that necessarily draw on a diverse and contentious public sphere of opinion. Their rhetoric ranges from the reformist to the revolutionary. Reflecting the diversity, indeed the disorderliness, of postcolonial print cultures this book covers local, national, and transnational cultures from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Its wide-ranging essays offer a nuanced and, taken together, a definitive (though that is not to say comprehensive or systematic) study of a global phenomenon: postcolonial print cultures as a distinct literary field. The chapters recover the efforts of writers, readers and publishers to produce a postcolonialism 'from below', and thereby offer a range of fresh perspectives on the meaning and history of postcolonialism.
Print Culture in Southern Africa
Print Culture in Southern Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Print Culture in Southern Africa write by Caroline Davis. This book was released on 2021-07-29. Print Culture in Southern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Print Culture in Southern Africa is concerned with the institutions and processes informing textual production, circulation and consumption in the region, over a broad historical period from the late 18th century to the present day. The book is organised around three closely related themes. Firstly, it presents original research into the formation of reading publics and the impact of reading cultures, by uncovering obscure but important reading communities and circuits of book distribution and reception. A second theme is the relationship between print and politics, with a particular focus on the networks of power: how control over the production and circulation of printed books has shaped literary and cultural development. The third theme is transnational print culture, and how the control exercised by publishers in Europe and America has shaped literature and society in southern Africa. Drawing together interdisciplinary research and diverse methodologies, the collection encompasses a range of perspectives, including literary studies, anthropology, publishing studies, the history of the book and art history, and many of the chapters are based on previously unexamined archives and collections. The volume contributes to current debates and opens up new and exciting ways of furthering the study of postcolonial literature and African book history. The chapters included in this book were originally published in the Journal of Southern African Studies.
Publishing against Apartheid South Africa
Publishing against Apartheid South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Publishing against Apartheid South Africa write by Elizabeth le Roux. This book was released on 2021-01-07. Publishing against Apartheid South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In many parts of the world, oppositional publishing has emerged in contexts of state oppression. In South Africa, censorship laws were enacted in the 1960s, and the next decade saw increased pressure on freedom of speech and publishing. With growing restrictions on information, activist publishing emerged. These highly politicised publishers had a social responsibility, to contribute to social change. In spite of their cultural, political and social importance, no academic study of their history has yet been undertaken. This Element aims to fill that gap by examining the history of the most vocal and arguably the most radical of this group, Ravan Press. Using archival material, interviews and the books themselves, this Element examines what the history of Ravan reveals about the role of oppositional print culture.
Underdevelopment and African Literature
Underdevelopment and African Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Underdevelopment and African Literature write by Sarah Brouillette. This book was released on 2021-01-28. Underdevelopment and African Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. People looking for works in cities are immersed in English as the lingua franca of the mobile phone and the urban hustle – more effective instigations to reading than decades of work by traditional publishers and development agencies. The legal publishing industry campaigns to convince people to scorn pirates and plagiarists as a criminal underclass, and to instead purchase copyrighted, barcoded works that have the look of legitimacy about them. They work with development industry officials to 'foster literacy' – meaning to grow the legal book trade as a contributor to national economic health, and police what and how the newly literate read. But harried cash-strapped audiences will read what and how they can, often outside of formal economies, and are increasingly turning to mobile phone platforms that sell texts at a fraction of the price of legally printed books.
