The Book in Africa

Davis, Caroline; Johnson, David A.

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“…Benedict Anderson's influential thesis connecting print capitalism to the rise of nationalism also speaks to this assumed power of print to shape thought and 'imagined communities' (1983). Scholarship in African book history and anthropology has demonstrated the limits and possibilities of these arguments in several African contexts, foregrounding issues of distribution; alphabetic literacy; and the need to fully acknowledge African agency within colonial print cultures (Thomas and Barber 2012;Newell 2013;Davis and Johnson 2015). Building on that work, we wish here to shift the emphasis to the literary dimensions of hyper-contemporary print activism as the location of agency, an expression of agency that unfurls through a desire for a 'something else' which is not essentialist in its aims and which leverages its own forms of momentum.…”

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Introduction: Literary Activism in 21st Century Africa

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Krishnan

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2021

Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies

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The final stages of this special issue cohered during a pandemic which has, thanks to an uneven global landscape of lockdowns and curfews, witnessed exceptional inventivity and literary activity in the digital African literary space. Literary festivals such as AfroLitSansFrontières, Aké Arts and Book Festival, Bakwa Lit Fest, Time of the Writer, Gaborone Book Festival, Heroe Book Fair, and scores more flourished across digital platforms from Instagram to YouTube. These events have accelerated transnational and multilingual conversations, while also hosting important dialogues about digital access and pan-African literary landscapes. Festivals remain key venues for knowledge production on and about African current affairs, as well as literary aesthetics and the politics of the literary marketplace. This issue's core concern with literary activism emerges in dialogue with ongoing conversations among African writers, publishers, festival organisers and translators who work across this space (in particular in Uganda,

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Introduction: Literary Activism in 21st Century Africa

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Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies

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‘Read! Learn!’: Grobalisation and (G)localisation in Caribbean Textbook Publishing

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The Global Histories of Books

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The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain

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The author wishes to thank the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland for their support during the writing of this chapter. 2 For further information on educational publishing in the nineteenth century see Stray and Sutherland, 'Mass markets: education'. 3 Ibid., p. 379. 4 Report of the Consultative Committee on Examinations in Secondary Schools London: HM Stationery Office 1911 (Cd 6004). 14 Davis, 'Histories of publishing under apartheid'. 15 Holman, Print for victory, p. 167. 16 Ibid.

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The Book in Africa

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Introduction: Literary Activism in 21st Century Africa

Introduction: Literary Activism in 21st Century Africa

‘Read! Learn!’: Grobalisation and (G)localisation in Caribbean Textbook Publishing

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain

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