Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa (EPUB) von Andrew van der Vlies

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, by leading international scholars, address the challenge of ‘book history’ for literary and cultural criticism in contemporary South Africa.

1 Print, Text and Books in South AfricaAndrew van der Vlies2.1 Metonymies of Lead: Bullets, Type and Print Culture in South African Missionary ColonialismLe on de Kock2.2 “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 AssociationIsabel Hofmeyr2.3 Textual Circuits and Intimate Relations: A Community of Letters across the Indian OceanMeg Samuelson3.1 Deneys Reitz and Imperial Co-optionJohn Gouws3.2 “Consequential Changes”: Daphne Rooke’s Mittee in America and South AfricaLuc y Valerie Graham3.3 Oprah’s Paton, or South Africa and the Globalisation of SufferingRita Barnard4.1 In (or From) the Heart of the Country: Local and Global Lives of Coetzee’s Anti-pastoralAndrew van der Vlies4.2 Under Local Eyes: The South African Publishing Context of J. M. Coetzee’s FoeJarad Zimbler4.3 Limber: The Flexibilities of Post-Nobel CoetzeePatrick Denman Flanery5.1 Colin Rae’s Malaboch: The Power of the Book in the (Mis)Representation of Kgaluši Sekete MmalebohoLize Kriel5.2 “Send Your Books on Active Service”: The Books for Troops Scheme during the Second World War, 1939–1945Archie L. Dick5.3 From The Origin of Language to a Language of Origin: A Prologue to the Grey CollectionHedley Twidle6.1 The Image of the Book in Xhosa Oral PoetryJeff Opland6.2 Written Out, Writing In: Orature in the South African Literary CanonDeborah Seddon6.3 Not Western: Race, Reading and the South African PhotocomicLily Saint7.1 The Politics of Obscenity: Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the Apartheid StatePeter D. McDonald7.2 “Deeply Racist, Superior and Patronising”: South African Literature Education and the “Gordimer Incident”Margriet van der Waal7.3 Begging the Questions: Producing Shakespeare for Post-apartheid South African SchoolsNatasha Distiller8.1 The Rise of the Surface: Emerging Questions for Reading and Criticism in South AfricaSarah Nuttall8.2 Sailing a Smaller Ship: Publishing Art Books in South AfricaBronwyn Law –Viljoen8.3 The University as Publisher: Towards a History of South African University PressesElizabeth le Roux