Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

Jarad Zimbler, Margriet Waal, Andrew Vlies, Hedley Twidle, Deborah Seddon, Meg Samuelson, Lily Saint, Jeff Opland, Sarah Nuttall, Peter D. McDonald, Elizabeth Roux, Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Lize Kriel, Isabel Hofmeyr, Lucy Valerie Graham, John Gouws, Patrick Denman Flanery, Natasha Distiller, Archie L. Dick, Leon Kock, Rita Barnard

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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.
1 Print, Text and Books in South Africa
Andrew van der Vlies
2.1 Metonymies of Lead: Bullets, Type and Print Culture in South African Missionary Colonialism
Le on de Kock
2.2 “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 Association
Isabel Hofmeyr
2.3 Textual Circuits and Intimate Relations: A Community of Letters across the Indian Ocean
Meg Samuelson
3.1 Deneys Reitz and Imperial Co-option
John Gouws
3.2 “Consequential Changes”: Daphne Rooke’s Mittee in America and South Africa
Luc y Valerie Graham
3.3 Oprah’s Paton, or South Africa and the Globalisation of Suffering
Rita Barnard
4.1 In (or From) the Heart of the Country: Local and Global Lives of Coetzee’s Anti-pastoral
Andrew van der Vlies
4.2 Under Local Eyes: The South African Publishing Context of J. M. Coetzee’s Foe
Jarad Zimbler
4.3 Limber: The Flexibilities of Post-Nobel Coetzee
Patrick Denman Flanery
5.1 Colin Rae’s Malaboch: The Power of the Book in the (Mis)Representation of Kgaluši Sekete Mmaleboho
Lize Kriel
5.2 “Send Your Books on Active Service”: The Books for Troops Scheme during the Second World War, 1939–1945
Archie L. Dick
5.3 From The Origin of Language to a Language of Origin: A Prologue to the Grey Collection
Hedley Twidle
6.1 The Image of the Book in Xhosa Oral Poetry
Jeff Opland
6.2 Written Out, Writing In: Orature in the South African Literary Canon
Deborah Seddon
6.3 Not Western: Race, Reading and the South African Photocomic
Lily Saint
7.1 The Politics of Obscenity: Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the Apartheid State
Peter D. McDonald
7.2 “Deeply Racist, Superior and Patronising”: South African Literature Education and the “Gordimer Incident”
Margriet van der Waal
7.3 Begging the Questions: Producing Shakespeare for Post-apartheid South African Schools
Natasha Distiller
8.1 The Rise of the Surface: Emerging Questions for Reading and Criticism in South Africa
Sarah Nuttall
8.2 Sailing a Smaller Ship: Publishing Art Books in South Africa
Bronwyn Law –Viljoen
8.3 The University as Publisher: Towards a History of South African University Presses
Elizabeth le Roux

Sujets

• Publishing Industry
• Publishers
• Disciplines
• Media Studies
• Language Arts
• Publishing

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• Publié par: WITS University Press
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781868148011
• Langue: English

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PRINT, TEXT AND BOOK CULTURES IN SOUTH AFRICA
PRINT, TEXT AND BOOK CULTURES IN SOUTH AFRICA
EDITED BY Andrew van der Vlies
Published in South Africa by:
Wits University Press
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Published edition Wits University Press 2012
Compilation Edition editor 2012
Chapters Individual contributors 2012
First published 2012
ISBN 978-1-86814-566-9 (Print)
ISBN 978-1-86814-593-5 (Epub)
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Cover images: Death of a Typewriter and Abamfusa Lawu by Willem Boshoff
Edited by Alex Potter
Cover design and layout by Hothouse South Africa
Printed and bound by Creda Communications
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and acronyms
1. INTRODUCTORY
1.1 Print, Text and Books in South Africa
ANDREW VAN DER VLIES
2. PRINT CULTURES AND COLONIAL PUBLIC SPHERES
2.1 Metonymies of Lead: Bullets, Type and Print Culture in South African Missionary Colonialism
LEON DE KOCK
2.2 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 Association
ISABEL HOFMEYR
2.3 Textual Circuits and Intimate Relations: A Community of Letters across the Indian Ocean
MEG SAMUELSON
3. LOCAL/GLOBAL: SOUTH AFRICAN WRITING AND GLOBAL IMAGINARIES
3.1 Deneys Reitz and Imperial Co-option
JOHN GOUWS
3.2 Consequential Changes : Daphne Rooke s Mittee in America and South Africa
LUCY VALERIE GRAHAM
3.3 Oprah s Paton, or South Africa and the Globalisation of Suffering
RITA BARNARD
4 . THREE WAYS OF LOOKING AT COETZEE
4.1 In (or From ) the Heart of the Country : Local and Global Lives of Coetzee s Anti-pastoral
ANDREW VAN DER VLIES
4.2 Under Local Eyes: The South African Publishing Context of J. M. Coetzee s Foe
JARAD ZIMBLER
4.3 Limber: The Flexibilities of Post-Nobel Coetzee
PATRICK DENMAN FLANERY
5. QUESTIONS OF THE ARCHIVE AND THE USES OF BOOKS
5.1 Colin Rae s Malaboch : The Power of the Book in the (Mis)Representation of Kgalu i Sekete Mmaleb h
LIZE KRIEL
5.2 Send Your Books on Active Service : The Books for Troops Scheme during the Second World War, 1939-1945
ARCHIE L. DICK
5.3 From The Origin of Language to a Language of Origin: A Prologue to the Grey Collection
HEDLEY TWIDLE
6. ORATURE, IMAGE, TEXT
6.1 The Image of the Book in Xhosa Oral Poetry
JEFF OPLAND
6.2 Written Out, Writing In: Orature in the South African Literary Canon
DEBORAH SEDDON
6.3 Not Western: Race, Reading and the South African Photocomic
LILY SAINT
7 . IDEOLOGICAL EXIGENCIES AND THE FATES OF BOOKS
7.1 The Politics of Obscenity: Lady Chatterley s Lover and the Apartheid State
PETER D. MCDONALD
7.2 Deeply Racist, Superior and Patronising : South African Literature Education and the Gordimer Incident
MARGRIET VAN DER WAL
7.3 Begging the Questions: Producing Shakespeare for Post-apartheid South African Schools
NATASHA DISTILLER
8. NEW DIRECTIONS
8.1 The Rise of the Surface: Emerging Questions for Reading and Criticism in South Africa
SARAH NUTTALL
8.2 Sailing a Smaller Ship: Publishing Art Books in South Africa
BRONWYN LAW-VILJOEN
8.3 The University as Publisher: Towards a History of South African University Presses
ELIZABETH LE ROUX
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgements
The following chapters are reproduced with permission:
Chapters 2.2, 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 Association by Isabel Hofmeyr; 3.3, Oprah s Paton, or South Africa and the Globalisation of Suffering by Rita Barnard; 4.2, Under Local Eyes: The South African Publishing Context of J. M. Coetzee s Foe by Jarad Zimbler; and 7.1, The Politics of Obscenity: Lady Chatterley s Lover and the Apartheid State by Peter D. McDonald all first appeared in English Studies in Africa 47(1) (2004). Barnard s, Zimbler s and McDonald s chapters have been revised by the authors for the present collection. All appear here by kind permission of English Studies in Africa and its editor, Michael Titlestad; Unisa Press; and Taylor Francis South Africa.
Chapter 2.3 , Textual Circuits and Intimate Relations: A Community of Letters across the Indian Ocean by Meg Samuelson, is a substantial revision of an essay that was first published as A Community of Letters on the Indian Ocean Rim: Friendship, Fraternity and (Af-filial) Love in English in Africa 31(5) (2008): 27-43. It appears with the permission of the editors of English in Africa .
Chapter 3.1 , Deneys Reitz and Imperial Co-option by John Gouws, is a revision of an essay first published in Books Empire: Textual Production, Distribution and Consumption in Colonial and Postcolonial Countries , edited by Paul Eggert and Elizabeth Webby, a special issue of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin 28(1-2) (2004): 73-82. It appears with permission of the editors and BSANZ .
Chapter 3.2 , Consequential changes : Daphne Rooke s Mittee in America and South Africa by Lucy Valerie Graham, was first published under the same title in Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 10(1) (2009): 43-58. It is reprinted by permission of the publisher, Taylor Francis Ltd, http://www.tandfonline.com .
Chapter 4.1 , In (or From ) the Heart of the Country : Local and Global Lives of Coetzee s Anti-pastoral by Andrew van der Vlies, is a comprehensively rewritten version of a chapter that first appeared in the author s monograph, South African Textual Cultures (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007). Acknowledgement is made to the publishers for permission to rework this material.
Chapter 4.3 , Limber: The Flexibilities of Post-Nobel Coetzee by Patrick Denman Flanery, is a substantially revised version of an essay first published in Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa 13(1) (2008). It appears with permission of the editor of Scrutiny2 , Unisa Press, and Taylor Francis South Africa.
Chapter 5.1 , Colin Rae s Malaboch: The Power of the Book in the (Mis) Representation of Kgalu i Sekete Mmaleb h by Lize Kriel, is a revision of an essay first published in the South African Historical Journal 46(1) (2002): 25-41. It appears with kind permission of the editor and board of the South African Historical Journal .
Chapter 5.2 , Send Your Books on Active Service : The Books for Troops Scheme during the Second World War, 1939-1945 by Archie L. Dick, is a revision of an essay first published in the South African Journal for Librarianship and Information Science 71(2) (2004): 115-26. It appears with permission of the editors.
Chapter 6.1 , The Image of the Book in Xhosa Oral Poetry by Jeff Opland, is a substantial revision of Chapter 14, The Image of the Book in Xhosa Izibongo , from the author s monograph, Xhosa Poets and Poetry (Claremont: David Philip, 1998), pp. 301-24. It has been lightly revised and appears with permission of the author.
Chapter 6.2 , Written Out, Writing In: Orature in the South African Literary Canon by Deborah Seddon, is a revised version of an essay first published in English in Africa 35(1) (2008). It appears by kind permission of the editors of English in Africa.
Chapter 6.3 , Not Western: Race, Reading and the South African Photocomic by Lily Saint, is a revised and abbreviated version of an essay first published in the Journal of Southern African Studies 36(4) (2010): 939-58. It appears by permission of the editor and board of the Journal of Southern African Studies and is reprinted by permission of the publisher, Taylor Francis Ltd, http://www.tandfonline.com .
Chapter 7.3 , Begging the Questions: Producing Shakespeare for Post-apartheid South African Schools by Natasha Distiller, is a revised version of an essay first published in Social Dynamics 35(1) (2009): 177-91. It appears by permission of the editors of Social Dynamics and Taylor Francis South Africa. A version of this work appears in the author s Shakespeare and the Coconuts: on post-apartheid South African culture (Wits University Press, 2012).
Individual image credits for figures in chapters 5.3 (Twidle), 6.3 (Saint), 7.1 (McDonald), and 8.2 (Law-Viljoen) appear with each image. The authors and editor are grateful to the copyright holders and archives in question for permission to reproduce these images.
The editor is grateful to Willem Boshoff for permission to use images of two artworks, Death of a Typewriter and Abamfusa Lawu .
Abbreviations and acronyms AES Army Education Services ANC African National Congress BFBS British and Foreign Bible Society BTCJ Books for Troops Committee in Johannesburg COSAW Congress of South African Writers Country In the Heart of the Country CTBTC Cape Town Books for the Troops Committee CTLBA Cape Town Ladies Bible Association DEIC Dutch East India Company DKP David Krut Publishing DoE Department of Education FOSATU Federation of South African Trade Unions GDE Gauteng Department of Education LMS London Missionary Society NLSA National Library of South Africa OUP Oxford University Press PCB Publications Control Board SAABFBS South African Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society SALA South African Library Association SAPL South African Public Library SMAC Stellenbosch Modern and Contemporary UCT University of Cape Town UDF Union Defence Force Unisa University of South Africa US United States WUP Wits University Press YMCA Young Men s Christian Association YWCA Young Women s Christian Association ZAR Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek
1 . INTRODUCTORY
1.1
Print, Text and Books in South Africa
ANDREW VAN DER