Brill | Jan 2016
In A History of the University Presses in Apartheid South Africa, Elizabeth le Roux examines scholarly publishing history, academic freedom and knowledge production during the apartheid era.
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Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan | 2013
Creating Postcolonial Literature examines the publishing of African literature in the postcolonial period. Its focus is the largely forgotten Three Crowns series by Oxford University Press (1962-1976), which was the vehicle for the publication of Wole Soyinka and Athol Fugard, along with many other major African writers, including Lewis Nkosi, John Pepper Clark, Obi Egbuna, Oswald Mtshali, Joe de Graft and Leopold Sédar Senghor.
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Routledge | Jun 2018
This special issue on ‘Print Culture in Southern Africa’, Journal of Southern African Studies (44, 3) covers a broad range of subjects from the late 18th century to the present day, including: Southern African reading culture, the mission presses, black periodicals, the publication of black women authors, paratextual histories and transnational publishing histories. This publication was the culmination of the three-year British Academy funded project on ‘Print Culture and Publishing in South Africa in the 20th Century’ between Oxford Brookes University and the University of Pretoria.
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Palgrave Macmillan | Mar 2015
The Book in Africa: Critical Debates presents new research and critical debates about book history in Africa, and brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives, in literary and cultural history, publishing studies, the history of the book, library studies and information science. This collection has its origins in ‘The Book in Africa’ symposium, held in October 2012 at the Institute of English Studies in London.
Expected date of publication: March 2015.
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University of Toronto Press | 2013
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.
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Manchester University Press | 2015
Working a World of Hurt fills a significant gap in the studies of the psychological trauma wrought by war. It focuses not on soldiers, but on the men and women who fought to save them in casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps. The writings by doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and other medical personnel reveal the spectrum of their responses that range from breakdown to resilience.
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2015
This is a collection of articles for a special issue of the journal Critical Arts. Articles are based on papers presented at the conference ‘Print, Publishing and Cultural Production in South Africa’ in Pretoria University, May 2013.
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