The hidden history of South Africa's book and reading cultures /

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"The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans; strategies...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dick, Archie L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2012.
Temas:
South Africans > Books and reading > History.
Books and reading > Political aspects > South Africa > History.
Books and reading > Social aspects > South Africa > History.
Censorship > South Africa > History.
Sud-Africains > Livres et lecture > Histoire.
Livres et lecture > Aspect politique > Afrique du Sud > Histoire.
Livres et lecture > Aspect social > Afrique du Sud > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
Books and reading > Political aspects
Books and reading > Social aspects
Censorship
Intellectual life
South Africa > Intellectual life.
South Africa
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Significance of Common Readers in South Africa
  • 1 Early Readers at the Cape, 1658-1800
  • 2 Literacy, Class, and Regulating Reading, 1800-1850
  • 3 The Women's Building of Nations: History Books in the Early Twentieth Century
  • 4 Books for Troops in the Second World War
  • 5 Politics and the Libraries, Part One: Book Theft, Intellectual Fraud, and Book Burning, 1950-1971
  • 6 Politics and the Libraries, Part Two: Dissident Readers and Librarians in the 1980s Townships
  • 7 Reading in Exile after Soweto, 1978-1992
  • 8 Combating Censorship and Making Space for Books.

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