LEADER 04275nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910966680103321 005 20230126203303.0 010 $a9780674074774 010 $a0674074777 010 $a9780674074743 010 $a0674074742 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674074743 035 $a(CKB)2550000001038967 035 $a(EBL)3301233 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000835403 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11516233 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835403 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10989756 035 $a(PQKB)11427450 035 $a(DE-B1597)209830 035 $a(OCoLC)828869156 035 $a(OCoLC)979777339 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674074743 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301233 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10664489 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301233 035 $a(Perlego)1147341 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001038967 100 $a20120801d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGandhi's printing press $eexperiments in slow reading /$fIsabel Hofmeyr 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780674072794 311 08$a0674072790 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 169-207) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Printing Cultures in the Indian Ocean World -- $t2. Gandhi's Printing Press -- $t3. Indian Opinion -- $t4. Binding Pamphlets, Summarizing India -- $t5. A Gandhian Theory of Reading -- $tConclusion -- $tAppendix: Pamphlets Reprinted from Indian Opinion -- $tNotes -- $tA Note on Sources -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aAt the same time that Gandhi, as a young lawyer in South Africa, began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper. Gandhi's Printing Press is an account of how this project, an apparent footnote to a titanic career, shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma. Pioneering publisher, experimental editor, ethical anthologist-these roles reveal a Gandhi developing the qualities and talents that would later define him. Isabel Hofmeyr presents a detailed study of Gandhi's work in South Africa (1893-1914), when he was the some-time proprietor of a printing press and launched the periodical Indian Opinion. The skills Gandhi honed as a newspaperman-distilling stories from numerous sources, circumventing shortages of type-influenced his spare prose style. Operating out of the colonized Indian Ocean world, Gandhi saw firsthand how a global empire depended on the rapid transmission of information over vast distances. He sensed that communication in an industrialized age was becoming calibrated to technological tempos. But he responded by slowing the pace, experimenting with modes of reading and writing focused on bodily, not mechanical, rhythms. Favoring the use of hand-operated presses, he produced a newspaper to contemplate rather than scan, one more likely to excerpt Thoreau than feature easily glossed headlines. Gandhi's Printing Press illuminates how the concentration and self-discipline inculcated by slow reading, imbuing the self with knowledge and ethical values, evolved into satyagraha, truth-force, the cornerstone of Gandhi's revolutionary idea of nonviolent resistance. 606 $aEast Indians$xAttitudes 606 $aNewspaper presses$zSouth Africa$xHistory 606 $aNewspaper publishing$zSouth Africa$xHistory 606 $aPrinting industry$zIndian Ocean Region$xHistory 606 $aReading$xPolitical aspects 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xPublic opinion 615 0$aEast Indians$xAttitudes. 615 0$aNewspaper presses$xHistory. 615 0$aNewspaper publishing$xHistory. 615 0$aPrinting industry$xHistory. 615 0$aReading$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a954.035092 700 $aHofmeyr$b Isabel$0657286 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910966680103321 996 $aGandhi's printing press$94352678 997 $aUNINA