Comparative Print Culture

Drawing on comparative literary studies, postcolonial book history, and multiple, literary, and alternative modernities, this collection approaches the study of  alternative literary modernities from the perspective of comparative print culture. The term  comparative print culture designates a wide range of scholarly practices that discover, examine, document,  and/or historicize various printed materials and their reproduction, circulation,  and uses across genres, languages, media, and technologies, all within a  comparative orientation. This book explores alternative  literary modernities mostly by highlighting the distinct ways in which literary  and cultural print modernities outside Europe evince the repurposing of European  systems and cultures of print and further deconstruct their perceived universality.