Books without borders v. 1 and 2: The cross-national dimension in print culture/Perspectives from South Asia

Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it ameans by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies and texts? This two-volume set responds to these questions, using archive-based case studies of print culture from around the world. INDICE: Volume 1: - List of Figures - List of Tables - Acknowledgments - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; R.Fraser & M.Hammond - Books Without Borders: The Transnational Turn in Book History; S.Shep - Publishing under theYoke: A Short History of the Bulgarian Book from Paisy of Hilendar to Peyo Yavorov; M.Gibson - 'After the Old; yet as agreeable... to the Newest': British and American Almanacs in the Era of American Independence; L.Santoro - From Germany to Brazil: The History of the Fashion Magazine A Estação, an International Enterprise; A.C.Suriani da Silva - School Readers in the Empire and the Creation of Postcolonial Taste; R.Fraser - Origin and Growth of the 'White Fathers' Press at Bukalasa, Uganda; I.Page - A New Demand for Old Texts: Philippine Metrical Romances in the Early Twentieth Century; P.M.B.Jurilla - Greene, Waugh, and the Lure of Travel; L.Prescott - Africa Writes Back: Heinemann African Writers Series - A Publisher's Memoir; J.Currey - Outside the Nation(al): 'South African' Print and Book Cultures and Global 'Text-scapes'; A.van der Vlies - Shakespeare's Postcolonial Journey; R.Mooneeram - Select Bibliography - Index - Volume 2: - List of Figures - List of Tables - Acknowledgments - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; R.Fraser & M.Hammond - The 'Book' in India: Orality, Manu-Script, Print (Post)Colonialism; H.Trivedi - The Many Worlds of the Vernacular Book: Performance, Literacy and Print in Colonial Bengal; A.Ghosh - Publishing and Translating Hafez under Empire; K.Scoular Datta - Missionary Writing and the Self-Fashioning of Assamese Cultural Identity in Colonial India: Revisiting the Past, Understanding the Present; H.Medhi - Futures Past: Books, Reading, Culture in the Age of Liberalization; P.Joshi - Book Circulation and Reader Responses in Colonial India; D.Finkelstein - Thacker, Spink and Company: Bookselling and Printing in Mid Nineteenth-Century Calcutta; V.Condie - Two Paradigms of Literary Production: The Production, Circulation and Legal Status of Rudyard Kipling's Departmental Ditties and Indian Railway Library Texts; S.Towheed - War and the Colonial Book Trade: The Case of OUP India; R.Fraser - Between Bloomsbury, Gandhi and Transcultural Modernities: The Publication and Reception of Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable; S.Nasta - Talking to India: The Literary Production and Consumption of South Asian Anglophone Writers in Britain, 1940-55; R.Ranasinha - Salman Rushdie and Zulfikar Ghosh in the Literary Marketplace; S.Brouillette - Bibliography - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-21717-1
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 512
• Fecha Publicación: 19/01/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 2
• Idioma: Inglés