TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hofmeyr,Isabel
TI  - Dockside reading: hydrocolonialism and the custom house 
SN  - 9781478015123 (rel)
AV  - HJ6891 
U1  - 382/.70941 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Durham, London
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Customs inspection
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - lc
KW  - Customhouses
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Censorship
KW  - Copyright
KW  - Marks of origin
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
KW  - HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa
KW  - Censure
KW  - Colonies britanniques
KW  - Afrique
KW  - ram
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - Afrique du Sud
KW  - 20e si�ecle
KW  - Douanes
KW  - Africa
KW  - Administration
KW  - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1872-1910
KW  - 1910-1994
N1  - Bibliogr. p. [103]-116. Notes bibliogr. Index
N2  - "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
ER  -