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Real and Imagined Readers: Censorship, Publishing and Reading under Apartheid
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Price: R 195
Publication Date: 2018-09-07
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978 1 86914 402 9
Ebook ISBN: 978 1 86914 403 6
Width: 148
Height: 210
Pages: 250
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Review by Albert Kasanda
Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society, [S.l.], v. 7, n. 2, p. 129-133, Dec. 2019. ISSN 2570-7558.
Writers such as A. Brink, N. Gordimer, and J. M. Coetzee, to name but a few, are among the giants of South African literature. Their work bears the mark of a constant criticism of the horrors and obscurantism of the racial discrimination that regulated both South African institutions and people’s everyday life for decades. Matteau-Matsha’s book explores this system by addressing the issue of censorship and its effects on the book industry under apartheid. The author unveils both the ambiguity and the perverse effects of censorship on writers, publishers, booksellers and readers.
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Real and Imagined Readers looks at an important period in South African 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. Books and print culture created intersectional spaces of solidarity where ideas and knowledge were contested, mediated and translated into the socio-political domain.
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