{"product_id":"9781868148011","title":"Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa","description":"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.","brand":"Wits University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151243034864,"sku":"9781868148011","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781868148011_p0.jpg?v=1763601374","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781868148011","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}