South African textual cultures

<p>Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but in the case of South Africa this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005 asking: who published what where why and how; how and why work was construed as 'South African' what this meant and how it affected reading. Exploring new approaches to studying colonial and postcolonial print cultures it seeks to redress inadequately historicised or transnationally situated studies of South African writing in English. <br><br><br>The book is absolutely essential reading for anyone with an interest in the fields of South African African and general colonial and postcolonial literatures and history as well as those with an interest print and media cultures and the History of the Book.</p>