Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa. Andrew van der Vlies

      

      PRINT, TEXT AND BOOK CULTURES IN SOUTH AFRICA

      PRINT, TEXT AND

       BOOK CULTURES

       IN SOUTH AFRICA

      EDITED BY Andrew van der Vlies

      Published in South Africa by:

      Wits University Press

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      Published edition © Wits University Press 2012

      Compilation © Edition editor 2012

      Chapters © Individual contributors 2012

      First published 2012

      ISBN 978-1-86814-566-9 (Print)

      ISBN 978-1-86814-593-5 (Epub)

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      Cover images: Death of a Typewriter and Abamfusa Lawu by Willem Boshoff

      Edited by Alex Potter

      Cover design and layout by Hothouse South Africa

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      CONTENTS

       Acknowledgements

       Abbreviations and acronyms

       1.INTRODUCTORY

       1.1Print, Text and Books in South Africa

      ANDREW VAN DER VLIES

       2.PRINT CULTURES AND COLONIAL PUBLIC SPHERES

       2.1Metonymies of Lead: Bullets, Type and Print Culture in South African Missionary Colonialism

      LEON DE KOCK

       2.2“Spread Far and Wide over the Surface of the Earth”: Evangelical Reading Formations and the Rise of a Transnational Public Sphere: The Case of the Cape Town Ladies’ Bible Association

      ISABEL HOFMEYR

       2.3Textual Circuits and Intimate Relations: A Community of Letters across the Indian Ocean

      MEG SAMUELSON

       3.LOCAL/GLOBAL: SOUTH AFRICAN WRITING AND GLOBAL IMAGINARIES

       3.1Deneys Reitz and Imperial Co-option

      JOHN GOUWS

       3.2“Consequential Changes”: Daphne Rooke’s Mittee in America and South Africa

      LUCY VALERIE GRAHAM

       3.3Oprah’s Paton, or South Africa and the Globalisation of Suffering

      RITA BARNARD

       4.THREE WAYS OF LOOKING AT COETZEE

       4.1In (or From) the Heart of the Country: Local and Global Lives of Coetzee’s Anti-pastoral

      ANDREW VAN DER VLIES

       4.2Under Local Eyes: The South African Publishing Context of J. M. Coetzee’s Foe

      JARAD ZIMBLER

       4.3Limber: The Flexibilities of Post-Nobel Coetzee

      PATRICK DENMAN FLANERY

       5.QUESTIONS OF THE ARCHIVE AND THE USES OF BOOKS

       5.1Colin Rae’s Malaboch: The Power of the Book in the (Mis)Representation of Kgaluši Sekete Mmalebôhô

      LIZE KRIEL

       5.2“Send Your Books on Active Service”: The Books for Troops Scheme during the Second World War, 1939–1945

      ARCHIE L. DICK

       5.3From The Origin of Language to a Language of Origin: A Prologue to the Grey Collection

      HEDLEY TWIDLE

       6.ORATURE, IMAGE, TEXT

       6.1The Image of the Book in Xhosa Oral Poetry

      JEFF OPLAND

       6.2Written Out, Writing In: Orature in the South African Literary Canon

      DEBORAH SEDDON

       6.3Not Western: Race, Reading and the South African Photocomic

      LILY SAINT

       7.IDEOLOGICAL EXIGENCIES AND THE FATES OF BOOKS

       7.1The Politics of Obscenity: Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the Apartheid State

      PETER D. MCDONALD

       7.2“Deeply Racist, Superior and Patronising”: South African Literature Education and the “Gordimer Incident”

      MARGRIET VAN DER WAL

       7.3Begging the Questions: Producing Shakespeare for Post-apartheid South African Schools

      NATASHA DISTILLER

       8.NEW DIRECTIONS

       8.1The Rise of the Surface: Emerging Questions for Reading and Criticism in South Africa

      SARAH NUTTALL

       8.2Sailing a Smaller Ship: Publishing Art Books in South Africa

      BRONWYN LAW-VILJOEN

       8.3The University as Publisher: Towards a History of South African University Presses

      ELIZABETH LE ROUX

       Contributors

       Index

Acknowledgements

      The following chapters are reproduced with permission:

      Chapters 2.2, “‘Spread Far and Wide over the Surface of the Earth’: Evangelical Reading Formations and the Rise of a Transnational Public Sphere: The Case of the Cape Town Ladies’ Bible Association” by Isabel Hofmeyr; 3.3, “Oprah’s Paton, or South Africa and the Globalisation of Suffering” by Rita Barnard; 4.2, “Under Local Eyes: The South African Publishing Context of J. M. Coetzee’s Foe” by Jarad Zimbler; and 7.1, “The Politics of Obscenity: Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the Apartheid State” by Peter D. McDonald all first appeared in English Studies in Africa 47(1) (2004). Barnard’s, Zimbler’s and McDonald’s chapters have been revised by the authors for the present collection. All appear here by kind permission of English Studies in Africa and its editor, Michael Titlestad; Unisa Press; and Taylor & Francis South Africa.

      Chapter 2.3, “Textual Circuits and Intimate Relations: A Community