TY - BOOK ID - 129319262 TI - Dockside reading : hydrocolonialism and the custom house PY - 2022 SN - 9781478017745 PB - Durham ; London : Duke University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Books and reading KW - Censorship KW - Copyright KW - Customhouses KW - Customs inspection KW - HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. KW - Marks of origin KW - Postcolonialism. KW - Colonies KW - Colonies KW - Colonies KW - Colonies KW - Colonies KW - Social aspects. KW - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) KW - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) KW - Great Britain KW - Politics and government KW - Politics and government KW - Colonies KW - Administration UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:129319262 AB - "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 -