Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House

by Isabel Hofmeyr

Book Overview

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"