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

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
Otros Autores: Nuttall, Sarah (Editor ), Lavery, Charne, 1984- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a FRONT COVER -- HALF TITLE -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION Southern Lodestar: Isabel Hofmeyr's Life and Work -- PART 1 HIGH, LOW AND IN-BETWEEN -- CHAPTER 1 Transformations -- CHAPTER 2 African Popular Literatures Rising -- CHAPTER 3 Fluidity and Its Methodological Openings: Mobility and Discourse on the Eve of Colonialism -- CHAPTER 4 Oral Genres and Home-Grown Print Culture -- PART 2 PORTABLE METHODS -- CHAPTER 5 Overcomers: A Historical Sketch -- CHAPTER 6 Hemispheric Limits: Rethinking the Uses of Diaspora from South Africa 
505 0 |a CHAPTER 7 What's the Rush? Slow Reading, Summary and A Brief History of Seven Killings -- CHAPTER 8 Seeing Waters Afresh: Working with Isabel Hofmeyr -- PART 3 OCEANIC TURNS -- CHAPTER 9 A Turn to the Indian Ocean -- CHAPTER 10 'The Sea's Watery Volume': More-than-Book Ontologies and the Making of Empire History -- CHAPTER 11 Amphibious Form: Southern Print Cultures on Indian Ocean Shores -- CHAPTER 12 Wood and Water: Resonances from the Indian Ocean -- PART 4 CLOSING REFLECTIONS -- CHAPTER 13 Travel Disruptions: Irritability and Canonisation -- Proximate -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- BACK COVER 
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