1st Edition

Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes Rewriting the Script

By Robert Fraser Copyright 2008
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way. Robert Fraser proposes that we now look beyond the traditional methods of the Anglo-European bibliographic paradigm, and learn to appreciate instead the diversity of shapes that verbal expression has assumed across different societies. This change of... Read more

Part 1: Repositionings  1. The Problematics of Print  2. Scripts and Manuscripts  Part 2: Places  3. Transmitting the Word in South Asia  4. Transmitting the Word in Africa  Part 3: Powers  5. Resistance and Adaptation  6. Communication and Authority  7. Licensed Policeman and Literary Protestors  8. The Power of the Consumer.  Works Cited and Bibliography

Biography

Robert Fraser has published books on Proust, J.G. Frazer, Ben Okri, African poetry and postcolonial fiction. He is co-editor with Mary Hammond of the two-volume Books Without Borders (2008), and also enjoys a parallel career as a biographer. Professor of English at the Open University, he is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society.