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Postcolonial Book History : Speech, Script and Print in World Cultures
By: Fraser Robert, Robert Fraser
| Retail Price: | $165.00 |
| Booktopia Price | $148.50 |
ISBN-13: 9780415402934
ISBN: 041540293X
ISBN: 041540293X
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Hardcover
Date Published: October 2008
Date Published: October 2008
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Table of Contents:
| List of illustrations | |
| Repositionings | p. 1 |
| The problematics of print | p. 3 |
| A tale of two cities | p. 3 |
| Ex Africa semper aliquid novi | p. 7 |
| The lure of a paradigm | p. 10 |
| Homage to a five-faced Siva | p. 14 |
| Towards a new consensus | p. 18 |
| The ancestries of print | p. 22 |
| Scripts and manuscripts | p. 27 |
| 'Look, the sign' | p. 27 |
| Hear the sign | p. 28 |
| Cosmopolitanism, pre-coloniality and culture | p. 30 |
| Sappho in the Sahel | p. 34 |
| Stable instabilities | p. 39 |
| The problem of attribution | p. 42 |
| Texts and repertoires | p. 46 |
| Places | p. 51 |
| Transmitting the word in South Asia | p. 53 |
| A new woman | p. 53 |
| The age of iron | p. 55 |
| 'Speech is immortal.' Oral forms: a study in survival | p. 57 |
| Script galaxies and the universe of script | p. 64 |
| Print adaptation and print reinforcement | p. 68 |
| Book marts and reader constituencies | p. 76 |
| Transmitting the word in Africa | p. 78 |
| A child of his time | p. 78 |
| A question of speech | p. 79 |
| The Mfecane of print | p. 83 |
| Blinkards and drinkards | p. 87 |
| Sign and sound in Sierra Leone | p. 92 |
| 'The Clean Book': repertoire as text | p. 97 |
| Powers | p. 103 |
| Resistance and adaptation | p. 105 |
| Rewriting the script | p. 105 |
| Some patterns of resistance | p. 105 |
| Print adaptation and the recovery of script | p. 111 |
| Print adaptation and the revitalisation of speech | p. 120 |
| Communication and authority | p. 126 |
| Peddlers of power | p. 126 |
| The policing of speech | p. 126 |
| The policing of scripts | p. 132 |
| The policing of repertoires | p. 138 |
| Licensed snoopers and literary protestors | p. 144 |
| Policing the text | p. 144 |
| The dread of free diffusion | p. 145 |
| Protest phase one: The Nil Darpan affair | p. 148 |
| The age of surveillance | p. 149 |
| Protest phase two: literature and nation | p. 152 |
| The argument from autonomy | p. 157 |
| Messages and mullahs | p. 161 |
| The power of the consumer | p. 164 |
| Reading masses and high-minded elites | p. 164 |
| A world of readers | p. 167 |
| Reading before genre | p. 169 |
| Counter-interpreting romance | p. 174 |
| Reading and readers today | p. 178 |
| The great tradition poco-style | p. 181 |
| 'Canons to the left of them' | p. 184 |
| Bibliography | p. 189 |
| Index | p. 202 |
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Details:
ISBN: 041540293X
ISBN-13: 9780415402934
Publisher: 10308795
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Audience: General
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