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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Johannesburg :
Wits University Press,
[2023]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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