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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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