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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, 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.
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Hydrocolonialism: The View from the Dockside 1
1. The Custom House and Hydrocolonial Governance 27
2. Customs and Objects on a Hydrocolonial Frontier 39
3. Copyright on a Hydrocolonial Frontier 49
4. Censorship on a Hydrocolonial Frontier 63
Conclusion. Dockside Genres and Postcolonial Literature 77
Notes 85
Bibliography 103
Index 117
