Reading from the South : African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr's work /

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This set of essays analyses the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, globally recognised as one of South Africa's foremost literary and Indian Ocean scholars. The essays elucidate Hofmeyr's path-breaking studies of transnational histories of the book, African print cultures, and cultural circulations i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lavery, Charne, 1984- (Editor ), Nuttall, Sarah (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, [2023]
Temas:
Hofmeyr, Isabel.
Books and reading > Africa.
Literature and society > Africa.
Visual communication > Africa.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Humanities > Indian Ocean Region.
Indian Ocean Region > Civilization.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Southern Lodestar: Isabel Hofmeyr's Life and Work
  • PART 1. HIGH, LOW AND IN-BETWEEN. Transformations ; African popular literatures rising ; Fluidity and its methodological openings: mobility and discourse on the eve of colonialism ; Oral genres and home-grown print culture
  • PART 2. PORTABLE METHODS. Overcomers: a historical sketch ; Hemispheric limits: rethinking the uses of diaspora from South Africa ; What's the rush? Slow reading, summary and a Brief History of Seven Killings ; Seeing waters afresh: working with Isabel Hofmeyr
  • PART 3. OCEANIC TURNS. A turn to the Indian Ocean ; 'The Sea's Watery Volume': more-than-book ontologies and the making of Empire history ; Amphibious form: Southern print cultures on Indian Ocean shores ; Wood and water: resonances from the Indian Ocean
  • PART 4. CLOSING REFLECTIONS. Travel disruptions: irritability and canonisation ; Proximate.

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