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The hidden history of South Africa's book and reading cultures (Paperback)
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The hidden history of South Africa's book and reading cultures (Paperback)
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List price R170
Loot Price R133
Discovery Miles 1 330
You Save R37 (22%)
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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 that have been hidden until now for
political reasons relating to the country's liberation struggles.
By looking to records from a slave lodge, women's associations,
army education units, universities, courts, libraries, prison
departments, and political groups, Archie Dick exposes the key
works of fiction and non-fiction, magazines, and newspapers that
were read and discussed by political activists and prisoners.
Uncovering the book and library schemes that elites used to
regulate reading, Dick exposes incidences of intellectual fraud,
book theft, censorship, and book burning. Through this innovative
methodology, Dick aptly shows how South African readers used
reading and books to resist unjust regimes and build community
across South Africa's class and racial barriers.
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