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Author | : Isabel Hofmeyr |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 2021-11-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1478022361 |
In Dockside Reading Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial Custom House. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dockside customs officials would leaf through publications looking for obscenity, politically objectionable materials, or reprints of British copyrighted works, often dumping these condemned goods into the water. These practices, echoing other colonial imaginaries of the ocean as a space for erasing incriminating evidence of the violence of empire, informed later censorship regimes under apartheid in South Africa. By tracking printed matter from ship to shore, Hofmeyr shows how literary institutions like copyright and censorship were shaped by colonial control of coastal waters. Set in the environmental context of the colonial port city, Dockside Reading explores how imperialism colonizes water. Hofmeyr examines this theme through the concept of hydrocolonialism, which puts together land and sea, empire and environment.
Author | : Charne Lavery |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2023-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1776148363 |
Draws together reflective and analytical essays by renowned intellectuals from around the world who critically engage with the work of one of the global South s leading scholars of African print cultures and the oceanic humanities, Isabel Hofmeyr.
Author | : John Townsend |
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Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Readers (Elementary) |
ISBN | : 9781846808685 |
Dockside is an accessible, but tightly structured, new reading scheme that builds confidence and motivates even the most 'switched-off' beginner or catch-up reader, aged 9 years and above.
Author | : Priyasha Mukhopadhyay |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2024-08-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691261547 |
How ordinary forms of writing—including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines—shaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empire In Required Reading, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative history of reading that centers archives of everyday writing from the British empire. Mukhopadhyay rummages in the drawers of bureaucratic offices and the cupboards of publishers in search of how historical readers in colonial South Asia responded to texts ranging from licenses to manuals, how they made sense of them, and what this can tell us about their experiences living in the shadow of a vast imperial power. Taking these engagements seriously, she argues, is the first step to challenging conventional notions of what it means to read. Mukhopadhyay’s account is populated by a cast of characters that spans the ranks of colonial society, from bored soldiers to frustrated bureaucrats. These readers formed close, even intimate relationships with everyday texts. She presents four case studies: a soldier’s manual, a cache of bureaucratic documents, a collection of astrological almanacs, and a women’s literary magazine. Tracking moments in which readers refused to read, were unable to read, and read in part, she uncovers the dizzying array of material, textual, and aural practices these texts elicited. Even selectively read almanacs and impenetrable account books, she finds, were springboards for personal, world-shaping readerly relationships. Untethered from the constraints of conventional literacy, Required Reading reimagines how texts work in the world and how we understand the very idea of reading.
Author | : Isabel Hofmeyr |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2023-09-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000937135 |
An experiment in reading for water, this book offers students and teachers a toolkit of methods that follow the sensory, political and agentive power of water across literary texts. The chapters in this book follow rivers, rain, streams, tunnels and sewers; connect atmospheric, surface and ground water; describe competing hydrological traditions and hydro-epistemologies. They propose new literary regions defined less by nation and area than by coastlines, river basins, monsoons, currents and hydro-cosmologies. Whether thinking along water courses, below the water line, or through the fall of precipitation, Reading for Water moves laterally, vertically and contrapuntally between different water-worlds and hydro-imaginaries. Addressing southern African and Caribbean texts, the collection draws on a range of elementally inclined literary approaches: critical oceanic studies, new materialisms, coastal and hydrocritical approaches, hydrocolonialism, black hydropoetics and atmospheric methods. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Interventions.
Author | : Kate Ruttle |
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Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9781846809095 |
Author | : Philippa Bateman |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2011 |
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ISBN | : 9781846809057 |
Author | : Liverpool (England). Public Libraries, Museums, and Art Gallery |
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Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 1925 |
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Author | : Liverpool (England). Public Libraries, Museums, and Art Gallery |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Libraries |
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Author | : Philippa Bateman |
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Release | : 2011-03-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781846808494 |
Dockside is an accessible, but tightly structured, new reading scheme that builds confidence and motivates even the most 'switched-off' beginner or catch-up reader, aged 9 years and above.