Real and Imagined Readers Censorship, Publishing and Reading Under Apartheid

SKU: 9781869144029
REAL AND IMAGINED READERS CENCORSHIP Books

Real and Imagined Readers Censorship, Publishing and Reading Under Apartheid

SKU: 9781869144029
Author: Rachel Matteau Matsha
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"Real and Imagined Readers looks at an important period in South Africa literary history, marked by apartheid censorship and the extensive banning of intellectual and creative voices. Returning to the archive, this book offers a reader-centric view of the successive censorship laws, and the consequences of publication control on the world of books. In contrast to the mainstream literary industry, which largely supported the status quo, some progressive readers, aligned to various strands of resistance politics, curbed censorship and actively participated in independent literary movements, alongside oppositional writers, publishers, librarians and booksellers. Books and print culture created intersectional spaces of solidarity where ideas and knowledge were contested, mediated and translated into the socio-political domain. By focusing on these marginalised readers, Matteau Matsha sheds light on the reading cultures and practices that developed in the shadow of apartheid censorship, creating alternative literary spaces. Real readers engaged in an elusive dialogue with the censors' imagined readers, and definition of literature and readerships emerged from this unusual connection, leading to the formation of literary canons and conventions that inform literary criticism and reading politics to this day. By understanding reading as a complex and dynamic activity, this book stresses the importance of appreciating books in relation to the social context in which they are written, and most importantly, read."--Back cover.
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Publisher Date: 2018-01-01
Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Pages: 230
Language: English

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