This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of
postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and
illuminating way. Robert Fraser proposes that we now look beyond
the traditional methods of the Anglo-European bibliographic
paradigm, and learn to appreciate instead the diversity of shapes
that verbal expression has assumed across different societies. This
change of attitude will encourage students and researchers to
question developmentally conceived models of communication, and
move instead to a re-formulation of just what is meant by a book,
an author, a text. Fraser illustrates his combined approach with
comparative case studies of print, script and speech cultures in
South Asia and Africa, before panning out to examine conflicts and
paradoxes arising in parallel contexts. The re-orientation of
approach and the freshness of view offered by this volume will
foster understanding and creative collaboration between scholars of
different outlooks, while offering a radical critique to those
identified in its concluding section as purveyors of global
literary power.
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