Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press (2012), 476 pp.
Contains illustrations, index
Signature commbox: 151:20-Books 2012
"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." (Publisher description)
I: INTRODUCTORY
Print, text and books in South Africa / Andrew van der Vlies, 2
II: PRINT CULTURES AND COLONIAL PUBLIC SPHERES
Metonymies of lead: bullets, type and print culture in South African missionary colonialism / Leon de Kock, 50
"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 Association / Isabel Hofmeyer, 74
Textual circuits and intimate relations: a community of letters across the Indian Ocean / Meg Samuelson, 87
III: LOCAL/GLOBAL: SOUTH AFRICAN WRITING AND GLOBAL IMAGINARIES
Deneys Reitz and imperial co-option / John Gouws, 110
"Consequential changes": Daphne Rooke's Mittee in America and South Africa / Lucy Valerie Graham, 121
Oprah's paton, or South Africa and the globalisation of suffering / Rita Barnard, 140
IV: THREE WAYS OF LOOKING AT COETZEE
In (or from) the heart of the country: local and global lives of Coetzee's anti-pastoral / Andrew van der Vlies, 166
Under local eyes: the South African publishing context of J.M. Coetzee's Foe / Jarad Zimbler, 195
Limber: the flexibilities of post-Nobel Coetzee / Patrick Denman Flanery, 208
V: QUESTIONS OF THE ARCHIVE AND THE USES OF BOOKS
Colin Rae's Malaboch: the power of the book in the (mis)representation of Kgalusi Sekete Mmalebôhô / Lize Kriel, 226
"Send your books on active service": the books for troops scheme during the Second World War, 1939-1945 / Archie L. Dick, 240
From The origin of language to a language of origin: a prologue to the Grey Collection / Hedley Twidle, 252
VI: ORATURE, IMAGE, TEXT
The image of the book in Xhosa oral poetry / Jeff Opland, 286
Written out, writing in: orature in the South African literary canon / Deborah Seddon, 306
Not Western: race, reading and the South African photocomic / Lily Saint, 325
VII: IDEOLOGICAL EXIGENCIES AND THE FATES OF BOOKS
The politics of obscenity: Lady Chatterley's lover and the Apartheid state / Peter D. McDonald, 348
"Deeply racist, superior and patronising": South African literature education and the "Gordimer incident" / Margriet van der Waal, 369
Begging the questions: producing Shakespeare for post-Apartheid South African schools / Natasha Distiller, 386
VIII: NEW DIRECTIONS
The rise of the surface: emerging questions for reading and criticism in South Africa / Sarah Nuttall, 408
Sailing in a smaller ship: publishing art books in South Africa / Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, 422
The university as publisher: towards a history of South African University Presses / Elizabeth Le Roux, 437
Print, text and books in South Africa / Andrew van der Vlies, 2
II: PRINT CULTURES AND COLONIAL PUBLIC SPHERES
Metonymies of lead: bullets, type and print culture in South African missionary colonialism / Leon de Kock, 50
"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 Association / Isabel Hofmeyer, 74
Textual circuits and intimate relations: a community of letters across the Indian Ocean / Meg Samuelson, 87
III: LOCAL/GLOBAL: SOUTH AFRICAN WRITING AND GLOBAL IMAGINARIES
Deneys Reitz and imperial co-option / John Gouws, 110
"Consequential changes": Daphne Rooke's Mittee in America and South Africa / Lucy Valerie Graham, 121
Oprah's paton, or South Africa and the globalisation of suffering / Rita Barnard, 140
IV: THREE WAYS OF LOOKING AT COETZEE
In (or from) the heart of the country: local and global lives of Coetzee's anti-pastoral / Andrew van der Vlies, 166
Under local eyes: the South African publishing context of J.M. Coetzee's Foe / Jarad Zimbler, 195
Limber: the flexibilities of post-Nobel Coetzee / Patrick Denman Flanery, 208
V: QUESTIONS OF THE ARCHIVE AND THE USES OF BOOKS
Colin Rae's Malaboch: the power of the book in the (mis)representation of Kgalusi Sekete Mmalebôhô / Lize Kriel, 226
"Send your books on active service": the books for troops scheme during the Second World War, 1939-1945 / Archie L. Dick, 240
From The origin of language to a language of origin: a prologue to the Grey Collection / Hedley Twidle, 252
VI: ORATURE, IMAGE, TEXT
The image of the book in Xhosa oral poetry / Jeff Opland, 286
Written out, writing in: orature in the South African literary canon / Deborah Seddon, 306
Not Western: race, reading and the South African photocomic / Lily Saint, 325
VII: IDEOLOGICAL EXIGENCIES AND THE FATES OF BOOKS
The politics of obscenity: Lady Chatterley's lover and the Apartheid state / Peter D. McDonald, 348
"Deeply racist, superior and patronising": South African literature education and the "Gordimer incident" / Margriet van der Waal, 369
Begging the questions: producing Shakespeare for post-Apartheid South African schools / Natasha Distiller, 386
VIII: NEW DIRECTIONS
The rise of the surface: emerging questions for reading and criticism in South Africa / Sarah Nuttall, 408
Sailing in a smaller ship: publishing art books in South Africa / Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, 422
The university as publisher: towards a history of South African University Presses / Elizabeth Le Roux, 437
