The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2013
Author
Author: Archie L. Dick
Language
English
Number of Pages
196 pp.
Publisher
University of Toronto
City
Toronto, Canada
Region
Africa
Chronological Period
17th century
1800-1849
1850-1899
18th century
1900-1949
1950-1999
ISBN
9781442642898
Annotation

Contents: 

  • Introduction: The Significance of Common Readers in South Africa
  • Early Readers at the Cape, 1658-1800
  • Literacy, Class, and Regulating Reading, 1800-1850
  • The Women's Building of Nations: History Books in the Early Twentieth Century
  • Books for Troops in the Second World War
  • Politics and the Libraries, Part One: Book Theft, Intellectual Fraud, and Book Burning, 1950-1971
  • Politics and the Libraries, Part Two: Dissident Readers and Librarians in the 1980s Townships
  • Reading in Exile after Soweto, 1978-1992
  • Combating Censorship and Making Space for Books
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