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The book in Africa : critical debates
- Title
- The book in Africa : critical debates / Edited by Caroline Davis, Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University, UK and David Johnson, Professor of Literature, Open University, UK.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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- Description
- xii, 280 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This volume presents new research and critical debates in African book history, and brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives by leading scholars in the subject. It includes case studies from across Africa - from Ethiopia to Cameroon, from Morocco to South Africa - and from third-century manuscript traditions to twenty-first century internet communications. Throughout, it seeks to frame individual case studies in ways that resonate with critical debates in African book history throughout the continent. Studies of the book in Africa to date have been dominated by the histories of how European missionaries, colonial administrators and traders brought the book and literacy to Africa. In contrast, this volume places African book histories in their multiple forms at the centre of study; and the research, questions and debates driving each chapter are derived from African cultural, political and economic contexts"--
- Series Statement
- New directions in book history
- Uniform Title
- New directions in book history.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- Copying and Circulation in South Africa's Reading Cultures, 1780-1840 / Archie L. Dick -- Printing as an Agent of Change in Morocco, 1864-1912 / Fawzi Abdulrazak -- Between Manuscripts and Books : Islamic Printing in Ethiopia / Alessandro Gori -- Making Book History in Timbuktu / Shamil Jeppie -- Print Culture and Imagining the Union of South Africa / David Johnson -- Creating a Book Empire : Longmans in Africa / Caroline Davis -- From Royalism to E-secessionism : Lozi Histories and Ethnic Politics in Zambia / Jack Hogan and Giacomo Macola -- Between the Cathedral and the Market : A Study of Wits University Press / Elizabeth Le Roux -- Francophone African Literary Prizes and the 'Empire of the French Language' / Ruth Bush and Claire Ducournau -- Heinemann's African Writers Series and the Rise of James Ngugi / Nourdin Bejjit -- The Publishing and Digital Dissemination of Creative Writing in Cameroon / Joyce B. Ashuntantang -- Index.
- Call Number
- Sc D 15-1100
- ISBN
- 9781137401618 (hardback)
- 1137401613 (hardback)
- 9781137401625 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014049564
- OCLC
- 892888097
- Title
- The book in Africa : critical debates / Edited by Caroline Davis, Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University, UK and David Johnson, Professor of Literature, Open University, UK.
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New directions in book historyNew directions in book history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Davis, Caroline, 1964- editor.Johnson, David, 1962 May 20- editor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 15-1100