Pulp : a short biography of the banished book /
Rao, Shubigi, 1975-
Pulp : a short biography of the banished book / Shubigi Rao. - First edition. - xii, 268 pages 23 cm. illustrations (some color) ; - Pulp series .
"Map inside dust jacket drawn by author and highlights a few especially egregious historical examples of libricide, especilally as corollary to genocide."
volume 1. A short biography of the banished book
This is not meant to be an exhaustive book. For one, that was not my aim, though in all honesty I would be hard-pressed to claim a clearly delineated aim at the outset. For another, it is part of a larger decade-long project, formally initiated in 2013, though perhaps gestating ever since my mother first read to me in utero, from books now lost. This book is the first in a series of five, and as such holds the undiluted joy of loving books, and the furious anger and sorrow at their destruction. A quasi-documentary film,again in five parts, and drawings of aless structured quality accompany this book. Also a chunk of this book is only available online, and when it vanishes this book will be further diminished. So what you hold in your hands is a fraction of the project, but worse, it shrinks in relation to the field. It is barely a sliver of a fraction, as all books invariably are, especially books that wrestle with impoverished historical record. -- Preface.
In English.
9789810983819
2018333392
Books--Mutilation, defacement, etc.
Libraries--Destruction and pillage--History.
Books--Social aspects--History.
Prohibited books--History.
Cultural property--Protection.
Censorship.
Book collectors.
Book collecting.
Fine Arts, Bachelor of ;--History 1: Asian Art ;--FA220
Z 659 / .2016 R36 v1
Pulp : a short biography of the banished book / Shubigi Rao. - First edition. - xii, 268 pages 23 cm. illustrations (some color) ; - Pulp series .
"Map inside dust jacket drawn by author and highlights a few especially egregious historical examples of libricide, especilally as corollary to genocide."
volume 1. A short biography of the banished book
This is not meant to be an exhaustive book. For one, that was not my aim, though in all honesty I would be hard-pressed to claim a clearly delineated aim at the outset. For another, it is part of a larger decade-long project, formally initiated in 2013, though perhaps gestating ever since my mother first read to me in utero, from books now lost. This book is the first in a series of five, and as such holds the undiluted joy of loving books, and the furious anger and sorrow at their destruction. A quasi-documentary film,again in five parts, and drawings of aless structured quality accompany this book. Also a chunk of this book is only available online, and when it vanishes this book will be further diminished. So what you hold in your hands is a fraction of the project, but worse, it shrinks in relation to the field. It is barely a sliver of a fraction, as all books invariably are, especially books that wrestle with impoverished historical record. -- Preface.
In English.
9789810983819
2018333392
Books--Mutilation, defacement, etc.
Libraries--Destruction and pillage--History.
Books--Social aspects--History.
Prohibited books--History.
Cultural property--Protection.
Censorship.
Book collectors.
Book collecting.
Fine Arts, Bachelor of ;--History 1: Asian Art ;--FA220
Z 659 / .2016 R36 v1