Print culture and imagining the Union of South Africa

Johnson, David (2015). Print culture and imagining the Union of South Africa. In: Davis, Caroline and Johnson, David eds. The Book in Africa: Critical Debates. New Direction in Book History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 105–127.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137401625_6

Abstract

This chapter examines Bendedict Anderson's theories about the role of print culture in imagining colonial nationalisms in relation to the constitition of the South African nation in the decade between the South African War (1899-1902) and the Union of South Africa (1910).

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• Book Section
• ISBN
• 1-137-40161-3, 978-1-137-40161-8
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Research Group
• History of Books and Reading (HOBAR)
  Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group (PGL)
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• David Johnson