Dockside reading : hydrocolonialism and the custom house /
Hofmeyr, Isabel.
Dockside reading : hydrocolonialism and the custom house / Isabel Hofmeyr. - 1 vol. (xii-121 p.) : ill., couv. ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliogr. p. [103]-116. Notes bibliogr. Index.
"In Dockside Reading Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationship between 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
9781478015123 (rel) 1478015128 9781478017745 (br) 1478017740
202101645
Customs inspection--Colonies.--Great Britain
Customhouses--Colonies.--Great Britain
Books and reading--Great Britain--Colonies.
Censorship--Colonies.--Great Britain
Copyright--Colonies.--Great Britain
Marks of origin--Social aspects.
Postcolonialism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa.
Censure--Colonies britanniques--Afrique.
Politique et gouvernement--Afrique du Sud--20e si�ecle.
Douanes--20e si�ecle.
Great Britain--Colonies--Administration.--Africa
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Politics and government--1872-1910.
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Politics and government--1910-1994.
HJ6891
382/.70941
Dockside reading : hydrocolonialism and the custom house / Isabel Hofmeyr. - 1 vol. (xii-121 p.) : ill., couv. ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliogr. p. [103]-116. Notes bibliogr. Index.
"In Dockside Reading Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationship between 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
9781478015123 (rel) 1478015128 9781478017745 (br) 1478017740
202101645
Customs inspection--Colonies.--Great Britain
Customhouses--Colonies.--Great Britain
Books and reading--Great Britain--Colonies.
Censorship--Colonies.--Great Britain
Copyright--Colonies.--Great Britain
Marks of origin--Social aspects.
Postcolonialism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa.
Censure--Colonies britanniques--Afrique.
Politique et gouvernement--Afrique du Sud--20e si�ecle.
Douanes--20e si�ecle.
Great Britain--Colonies--Administration.--Africa
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Politics and government--1872-1910.
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--Politics and government--1910-1994.
HJ6891
382/.70941