Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House by Hofmeyr, Isabel
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House by Hofmeyr, Isabel

Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House

In Dockside Reading Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the...
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Author: Isabel Hofmeyr
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House by Hofmeyr, Isabel

Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House

$94.06
Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House by Hofmeyr, Isabel

Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House

$94.06
Author: Isabel Hofmeyr
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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, Dockside Reading explores how imperialism colonizes water. Hofmeyr examines this theme through the concept of hydrocolonialism, which puts together land and sea, empire and environment.

Author: Isabel Hofmeyr
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 02/11/2022
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d
ISBN: 9781478017745

About the Author
Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. She is coeditor of Ten Books that Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading.
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