Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House

by Isabel Hofmeyr

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1478017740

ISBN13:9781478017745

Release Date:February 2022

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:136 Pages

Weight:0.42 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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