The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures / / Archie L. Dick.
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 t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Signifi cance 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
- Conclusion: Revealing the Hidden Books and Hidden Readers
- Notes
- Index