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Dockside Reading
Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House
Taschenbuch von Isabel Hofmeyr
Sprache: Englisch

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In Dockside Reading Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial Custom House. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dockside customs officials would leaf through publications looking for obscenity, politically objectionable materials, or reprints of British copyrighted works, often dumping these condemned goods into the water. These practices, echoing other colonial imaginaries of the ocean as a space for erasing incriminating evidence of the violence of empire, informed later censorship regimes under apartheid in South Africa. By tracking printed matter from ship to shore, Hofmeyr shows how literary institutions like copyright and censorship were shaped by colonial control of coastal waters. Set in the environmental context of the colonial port city, Dockside Reading explores how imperialism colonizes water. Hofmeyr examines this theme through the concept of hydrocolonialism, which puts together land and sea, empire and environment.
In Dockside Reading Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial Custom House. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dockside customs officials would leaf through publications looking for obscenity, politically objectionable materials, or reprints of British copyrighted works, often dumping these condemned goods into the water. These practices, echoing other colonial imaginaries of the ocean as a space for erasing incriminating evidence of the violence of empire, informed later censorship regimes under apartheid in South Africa. By tracking printed matter from ship to shore, Hofmeyr shows how literary institutions like copyright and censorship were shaped by colonial control of coastal waters. Set in the environmental context of the colonial port city, Dockside Reading explores how imperialism colonizes water. Hofmeyr examines this theme through the concept of hydrocolonialism, which puts together land and sea, empire and environment.
Über den Autor
Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. She is coeditor of Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Hydrocolonialism: The View from the Dockside 1
1. The Custom House and Hydrocolonial Governance 27
2. Customs and Objects on a Hydrocolonial Frontier 39
3. Copyright on a Hydrocolonial Frontier 49
4. Censorship on a Hydrocolonial Frontier 63
Conclusion. Dockside Genres and Postcolonial Literature 77
Notes 85
Bibliography 103
Index 117
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 134
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478017745
ISBN-10: 1478017740
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hofmeyr, Isabel
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 8 mm
Von/Mit: Isabel Hofmeyr
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.02.2022
Gewicht: 0,206 kg
preigu-id: 119731878
Über den Autor
Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. She is coeditor of Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Hydrocolonialism: The View from the Dockside 1
1. The Custom House and Hydrocolonial Governance 27
2. Customs and Objects on a Hydrocolonial Frontier 39
3. Copyright on a Hydrocolonial Frontier 49
4. Censorship on a Hydrocolonial Frontier 63
Conclusion. Dockside Genres and Postcolonial Literature 77
Notes 85
Bibliography 103
Index 117
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 134
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478017745
ISBN-10: 1478017740
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hofmeyr, Isabel
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 8 mm
Von/Mit: Isabel Hofmeyr
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.02.2022
Gewicht: 0,206 kg
preigu-id: 119731878
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