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Colonial/Postcolonial Book Cultures

August 6-8, 2001

Grahamstown, South Africa

Literature

Host: Rhodes University
Homepage: http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/isea/bookconf/index.htm

Description:
The conference will address a wide range of questions relating to the history of the book in colonial and post-colonial contexts, with a special emphasis on Southern Africa. Relevant topics include: national and international communities of letters; censorship; the history of reading and reading theories; reviewing and criticism; authorship; sociologies of the text; text and image; media history; the cultures of collecting; library history; literacy; orality and print; printing and publishing history; the marketing and distributing of books; the electronic text; and the future of the book.

Date received: November 16, 2000


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