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Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes

Name: Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes
Author: Robert Fraser
ISBN: 9780203888117

by Robert Fraser

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Overview

This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way. Fraser illustrates his combined approach with comparative case studies of print, script and speech cultures in Sout

About the Author, Robert Fraser

Robert Fraser has published books on Proust, J.G. Frazer, Ben Okri, African poetry and postcolonial fiction. He is co-editor with Mary Hammond of the two-volume Books Without Borders (2008), and also enjoys a parallel career as a biographer. Professor of English at the Open University, he is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society.