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Gandhi’s Printing Press

Experiments in Slow Reading

Isabel Hofmeyr

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$24.95 • £18.95 • €22.50

ISBN 9780674072794

Publication: March 2013

* Academic Trade

240 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

5 halftones, 4 maps

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  • HISTORY: Asia: India & South Asia
  • LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Publishing
  • PHILOSOPHY: Political
  • LITERARY CRITICISM: Books & Reading

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    Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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