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.