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Author(s): Isabel Hofmeyr Date: 2024 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 1478015128   Pages: 136 OCR: Quality: ISBN13:   Uploader: maveriks Upload Date: 9/14/2023 5:40:40 PM       To download click on link in the Links Table below                                                                        Description: Click to see full description 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, Read more Links Table     Title Link Password Size (MB) Thank to Inform Admin 3201293 Book https://rapidgator.net/file/9ae35d3b8793...   0.00 maveriks Tags: Custom Dockside House Hydrocolonialism Reading Title Link Password Size Reason Dead link New format   Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books: Comments New comment:

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