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The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures
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Through this innovative methodology, Dick aptly shows how South African readers used reading and books to resist unjust regimes and build community across South Africa's class and racial barriers.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Signifi cance of Common Readers in South Africa
- 1. Early Readers at the Cape, 1658–1800
- 2. Literacy, Class, and Regulating Reading, 1800–1850
- 3. The Women’s Building of Nations: History Books in the Early Twentieth Century
- 4. Books for Troops in the Second World War
- 5. Politics and the Libraries, Part One: Book Theft, Intellectual Fraud, and Book Burning, 1950–1971
- 6. Politics and the Libraries, Part Two: Dissident Readers and Librarians in the 1980s Townships
- 7. Reading in Exile after Soweto, 1978–1992
- 8. Combating Censorship and Making Space for Books
- Conclusion: Revealing the Hidden Books and Hidden Readers
- Notes
- Index