Book history through postcolonial eyes
Subtitle: rewriting the script
By: Robert Fraser.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Abingdon [England]; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780415402934; 9780415402941; 9780203888117
Subjects: Books -- South Asia -- History.; Books -- Africa -- History.; Printing -- South Asia -- History.; Printing -- Africa -- History.; Written communication -- South Asia -- History.; Written communication -- Africa -- History.; Book industries and trade -- South Asia -- History.; Book industries and trade -- Africa -- History.; Transmission of texts.; Oral tradition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The problematics of print; title: Scripts and manuscripts; title: Transmitting the word in South Asia; title: Transmitting the word in Africa; title: Resistance and adaptation; title: Communication and authority; title: Licensed policeman and literary protestors; title: The power of the consumer.