Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes

Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134142286

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Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes by Robert Fraser Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134142279

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Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes by Robert Fraser Pdf

This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way. Robert Fraser proposes that we now look beyond the traditional methods of the Anglo-European bibliographic paradigm, and learn to appreciate instead the diversity of shapes that verbal expression has assumed across different societies. This change of attitude will encourage students and researchers to question developmentally conceived models of communication, and move instead to a re-formulation of just what is meant by a book, an author, a text. Fraser illustrates his combined approach with comparative case studies of print, script and speech cultures in South Asia and Africa, before panning out to examine conflicts and paradoxes arising in parallel contexts. The re-orientation of approach and the freshness of view offered by this volume will foster understanding and creative collaboration between scholars of different outlooks, while offering a radical critique to those identified in its concluding section as purveyors of global literary power.

Author : Gail Fincham,Myrtle Hooper
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0799216488

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Under Postcolonial Eyes by Gail Fincham,Myrtle Hooper Pdf

Author : Aedín Ní Loingsigh
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846310492

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Postcolonial Eyes by Aedín Ní Loingsigh Pdf

Over the past two decades interest in travel has developed significantly. Critical engagement with imperialism, postcolonialism, diasporas, ethnography and cultural anthropology has led to increasingly sophisticated readings of the travel writing genre and a growing acknowledgement of itscomplex history. Postcolonial Eyes is the first study of its kind to identify a specifically Sub-Saharan African lineage within the broader tradition of travel writing. As well as exploring the reasons for Africans' exclusion from the genre, the book examines the important relationship betweenethnicity and travel and identifies the concerns and preoccupations that define African writers' approaches to travel.

Author : Andrew van der Vlies
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781868148011

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Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa by Andrew van der Vlies Pdf

An explanation of the unique role of the book and book collecting in South Africa due to the apartheid This 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.

Author : Leslie Howsam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107023734

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The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book by Leslie Howsam Pdf

An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.

Author : Bethan Benwell,James Procter,Gemma Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136454387

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Postcolonial Audiences by Bethan Benwell,James Procter,Gemma Robinson Pdf

Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while recent criticism and theory has made large claims for reading; as an ethical act; as a means of establishing collective, quasi-political consciousness; as identification with difference; as a mode of resistance; and as an impulsion to the public imagination, the reader in postcolonial literary studies persists as a shadowy figure. This collection answers the now pressing need for a distinctively postcolonial take on the rapidly expanding area of reader and reception studies. Written by some of the top scholars in the field, these essays reveal readers and reception to be varied and profoundly unstable subjects that challenge many of our assumptions and preconceptions of the postcolonial – from the notion of reading as national fellowship to the demands of an ethics of reading.

Author : R. Fraser,M. Hammond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230289130

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Books Without Borders, Volume 2 by R. Fraser,M. Hammond Pdf

This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artifact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work.

Author : R. S. Sugirtharajah
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781405158565

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Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism by R. S. Sugirtharajah Pdf

Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: History, Method, Practice offers a concise and multifaceted overview of the origins, development, and application of postcolonial criticism to biblical studies.? Offers a concise and accessible introduction to postcolonial biblical studies Provides a comprehensive overview of postcolonial studies by one of the field's most prominent figures Explains one of the most innovative and important developments in modern biblical studies Accessible enough to appeal to general readers interested in religion

Author : David Finkelstein,Alistair McCleery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780415688055

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An Introduction to Book History by David Finkelstein,Alistair McCleery Pdf

This second edition of An Introduction to Book History provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the development of the book and print culture. Each fully revised and updated chapter contains new material and covers recent developments in the field, including: The Postcolonial Book Censorship by states and religions Social History, and the recognition of underrepresentation of its value to book history studies Contemporary publishing Each section begins with a summary of the chapter's aims and contents, followed by a detailed discussion of the relevant issues, concluding with a summary of the chapter and points to ponder. Sections include: the history of the book orality to Literacy literacy to printing authors, authorship and authority printers, booksellers, publishers, agents readers and reading the future of the book. An Introduction to Book History is an ideal introduction to this exciting field of study, and is designed as a companion text to The Book History Reader.

Author : Adam Smyth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198846239

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Early Modern Book in England by Adam Smyth Pdf

"How were books in early modern England made, circulated, sold, stored, read, marked, altered, preserved, and destroyed? The Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England provides a stimulating account of the very newest work in the field, and an exploration of how new thinking might develop. Written by scholars working at the cutting-edge of the subject, from the UK and North America, the volume combines lucidity, scholarly expertise, intellectual precision, and an imaginative structure that will enable contributors to show why the history of the book matters. This volume analyses in a lively manner the nature and role of the book in early modern England, and also considers critically how we can talk about the history of book"--

Author : Daniel Allington,David A. Brewer,Stephen Colclough,Sian Echard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119115168

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The Book in Britain by Daniel Allington,David A. Brewer,Stephen Colclough,Sian Echard Pdf

Introduces readers to the history of books in Britain—their significance, influence, and current and future status Presented as a comprehensive, up-to-date narrative, The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction explores the impact of books, manuscripts, and other kinds of material texts on the cultures and societies of the British Isles. The text clearly explains the technicalities of printing and publishing and discusses the formal elements of books and manuscripts, which are necessary to facilitate an understanding of that impact. This collaboratively authored narrative history combines the knowledge and expertise of five scholars who seek to answer questions such as: How does the material form of a text affect its meaning? How do books shape political and religious movements? How have the economics of the book trade and copyright shaped the literary canon? Who has been included in and excluded from the world of books, and why? The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction will appeal to all scholars, students, and historians interested in the written word and its continued production and presentation.

Author : Swapan Chakravorty,Abhijit Gupta
Publisher : Worldview Publications
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Books
ISBN : 9788192065113

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New Word Order by Swapan Chakravorty,Abhijit Gupta Pdf

Author : Robert Fraser,Mary Hammond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230289116

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Books Without Borders, Volume 1 by Robert Fraser,Mary Hammond Pdf

Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world.

Author : Michael A. Bucknor,Alison Donnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136821738

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The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature by Michael A. Bucknor,Alison Donnell Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work. The volume is divided into six sections that consider: the foremost figures of the Anglophone Caribbean literary tradition and a history of literary critical debate textual turning points, identifying key moments in both literary and critical history and bringing lesser known works into context fresh perspectives on enduring and contentious critical issues including the canon, nation, race, gender, popular culture and migration new directions for literary criticism and theory, such as eco-criticism, psychoanalysis and queer studies the material dissemination of Anglophone Caribbean literature and generic interfaces with film and visual art This volume is an essential text that brings together sixty-nine entries from scholars across three generations of Caribbean literary studies, ranging from foundational critical voices to emergent scholars in the field. The volume's reach of subject and clarity of writing provide an excellent resource and springboard to further research for those working in literature and cultural studies, postcolonial and diaspora studies as well as Caribbean studies, history and geography.