Print Culture In Southern Africa

Author : Caroline Davis,Archie Dick,Elizabeth le Roux,Dennis Walder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000426373

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Print Culture in Southern Africa by Caroline Davis,Archie Dick,Elizabeth le Roux,Dennis Walder Pdf

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.

Author : Caroline Davis,Archie L. Dick,Elizabeth Le Roux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1040276557

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Special Issue: Print Culture in Southern Africa by Caroline Davis,Archie L. Dick,Elizabeth Le Roux Pdf

Author : Andrew van der Vlies
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : African Print Cultures Network. Meeting
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472053179

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African Print Cultures by African Print Cultures Network. Meeting Pdf

Broad-ranging essays on the social, political, and cultural significance of more than a century's worth of newspaper publishing practices across the African continent

Author : Peter Magubane
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UCSC:32106013740920

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Vanishing Cultures of South Africa by Peter Magubane Pdf

Ten major ethnic groups are featured - including the San, Zulu, Ndebele, Basotho, and Venda - as well as several smaller sub-groups. This book describes the individual personality and history of each, their education, laws, languages, medicine and magic, and their religion. Over 200 photographs capture the vibrant color of ceremonial and everyday dress and ornamentation, musical instruments, dances and rites of passage, art, homes, and work. The remarkable metal neck rings and the geometrically beaded wire hoops worn by Ndebele and Ntwana women, the sacrificial ceremonies of the Zulu, the long pipes smoked by the Xhosa, and the traditional hunter-gatherer weapons of the San, deep in the Kalahari Desert - the details of today's way of life are recorded here in evocative pictures, while former traditions, now lost, fill the text with the intriguing, vital history of each group.

Author : Sarah Nuttall,CHARNE LAVERY; SARAH NUTTALL; SUNIL AMRITH; GABEBA.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : 177614838X

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Reading from the South by Sarah Nuttall,CHARNE LAVERY; SARAH NUTTALL; SUNIL AMRITH; GABEBA. Pdf

This set of essays analyses the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, globally recognised as one of South Africa's foremost literary and Indian Ocean scholars. The essays elucidate Hofmeyr's path-breaking studies of transnational histories of the book, African print cultures, and cultural circulations in the Indian Ocean world.

Author : Stefan Helgesson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134042531

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Transnationalism in Southern African Literature by Stefan Helgesson Pdf

This innovative study examines both Anglophone and lusophone African literature. Helgesson argues that the prevalence of ‘colonial’ languages in ‘postcolonial’ African literature is caused by the print network, demystifying their authority through the materiality of print, and placing emphasis on the strong transnational, transcontinental vectors of southern African literature.

Author : Rasoul Aliakbari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030368913

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Comparative Print Culture by Rasoul Aliakbari Pdf

Drawing on comparative literary studies, postcolonial book history, and multiple, literary, and alternative modernities, this collection approaches the study of alternative literary modernities from the perspective ofcomparative print culture. The term comparative print culture designates a wide range of scholarly practices that discover, examine, document, and/or historicize various printed materials and their reproduction, circulation, and uses across genres, languages, media, and technologies, all within a comparative orientation. This book explores alternative literary modernities mostly by highlighting the distinct ways in which literary and cultural print modernities outside Europe evince the repurposing of European systems and cultures of print and further deconstruct their perceived universality.

Author : Toral Jatin Gajarawala,Neelam Srivastava,Rajeswari Sunder Rajan,Jack Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350261778

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures by Toral Jatin Gajarawala,Neelam Srivastava,Rajeswari Sunder Rajan,Jack Webb Pdf

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.

Author : Olakunle George
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119058175

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A Companion to African Literatures by Olakunle George Pdf

Rediscover the diversity of modern African literatures with this authoritative resource edited by a leader in the field How have African literatures unfolded in their rich diversity in our modern era of decolonization, nationalisms, and extensive transnational movement of peoples? How have African writers engaged urgent questions regarding race, nation, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality? And how do African literary genres interrelate with traditional oral forms or audio-visual and digital media? A Companion to African Literatures addresses these issues and many more. Consisting of essays by distinguished scholars and emerging leaders in the field, this book offers rigorous, deeply engaging discussions of African literatures on the continent and in diaspora. It covers the four main geographical regions (East and Central Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa), presenting ample material to learn from and think with. A Companion To African Literatures is divided into five parts. The first four cover different regions of the continent, while the fifth part considers conceptual issues and newer directions of inquiry. Chapters focus on literatures in European languages officially used in Africa -- English, French, and Portuguese -- as well as homegrown African languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Swahili, and Yoruba. With its lineup of lucid and authoritative analyses, readers will find in A Companion to African Literatures a distinctive, rewarding academic resource. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students in literary studies programs with an African focus, A Companion to African Literatures will also earn a place in the libraries of teachers, researchers, and professors who wish to strengthen their background in the study of African literatures.

Author : Leslie Bank,Nelly Sharpley
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781787388727

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Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa by Leslie Bank,Nelly Sharpley Pdf

This book explores the impact of Covid-19, and the associated state lockdown, on rural lives in a former homeland in South Africa. The 2020 Disaster Management Act saw the state sweep through rural areas, targeting funerals and other customary practices as potential ‘super-spreader’ events. This unprecedented clampdown produced widespread disruption, fear and anxiety. The authors build on path-breaking work concerning local responses to West Africa’s Ebola epidemic, and examine the HIV/AIDS pandemic, to understand the impact of the Covid crisis on these communities, and on rural Africa more broadly. To shed light on the role of custom and ritual in rural social change during the pandemic, Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa applies long-term historical and ethnographic research; theories of people’s science, local knowledge and the human economy; and fieldwork conducted in ten rural South African communities during lockdown. The volume highlights differences between developments in Southern Africa and elsewhere on the continent, while exploring how the former apartheid homelands–commonly, yet problematically, represented as former ‘labour reserves’–have since been reconstituted as new home-spaces. In short, it explains why rural people have been so angered by the state’s assault on their cultural practices and institutions in the time of Covid.

Author : Charne Lavery,Sarah Nuttall,Sunil Amrith,Gabeba Baderoon,Karin Barber,Rimli Bhattacharya,Antoinette Burton,Pumla Dineo Gqola,Carolyn Hamilton,Khwezi Mkhize,Danai S Mupotsa,James Ogude,Christopher EW Ouma,Ranka Primorac,Madhumita Lahiri,Meg Samuelson,Lakshmi Subramanian
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781776148394

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Reading from the South by Charne Lavery,Sarah Nuttall,Sunil Amrith,Gabeba Baderoon,Karin Barber,Rimli Bhattacharya,Antoinette Burton,Pumla Dineo Gqola,Carolyn Hamilton,Khwezi Mkhize,Danai S Mupotsa,James Ogude,Christopher EW Ouma,Ranka Primorac,Madhumita Lahiri,Meg Samuelson,Lakshmi Subramanian Pdf

This set of essays analyses the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, globally recognised as one of South Africa’s foremost literary and Indian Ocean scholars. The essays elucidate Hofmeyr’s path-breaking studies of transnational histories of the book, African print cultures, and cultural circulations in the Indian Ocean world. This book draws together reflective and analytical essays by renowned intellectuals from around the world who critically engage with the work of one of the global South’s leading scholars of African print cultures and the oceanic humanities. Isabel Hofmeyr’s scholarship spans more than four decades, and its sustained and long-term influence on her discipline and beyond is formidable. While much of the history of print cultures has been written primarily from the North, Isabel Hofmeyr is one of the leading thinkers producing new knowledge in this area from Africa, the Indian Ocean world and the global South. Her major contribution encompasses the history of the book as well as shorter textual forms and abridged iterations of canonical works such as John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. She has done pioneering research on the ways in which such printed matter moves across the globe, focusing on intra-African trajectories and circulations as well as movements across land and sea, port and shore. The essays gathered here are written in a blend of intellectual and personal modes, and mostly by scholars of Indian and African descent. Via their engagement with Hofmeyr’s path-breaking work, the essays in turn elaborate and contribute to studies of print culture as well as critical oceanic studies, consolidating their findings from the point of view of global South historical contexts and textual practices.

Author : Preben Kaarsholm
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015022274024

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Cultural Struggle & Development in Southern Africa by Preben Kaarsholm Pdf

With a primary focus on Zimbabwe, the essays in this book examine art, literature, politics, and religion in settler colonies to document the struggles taking place.

Author : Thomas Mofolo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803288345

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Chaka by Thomas Mofolo Pdf

Thomas Mofolo's final novel and masterpiece, Chaka captures the phenomenal rise and fall of the great Zulu king. One of the earliest modern literary classics from Southern Africa, Chaka, is the tragic tale of a warrior-king and his insatiable hunger for power. Told in a mythic style, Chaka follows the torments of the Zulu king's early life, his rapid ascension to the throne, and the prophesied events that lead to his downfall. 'Chaka is a beautifully dark and twisted take on the true life story of the Zulu King ... built around one of the most enigmatic and memorable literary figures you'd ever encounter.' Ainehi Edoro

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137064608

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Chiefs in South Africa by NA NA Pdf

This book examines the ongoing resurgence of traditional power structures in South Africa. Oomen assesses the relation between the changing legal and socio-political position of traditional authority and customary law and what these changes can teach us about the interrelation between law, politics, and culture in the post-modern world.