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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nuttall, Sarah (Editor), Lavery, Charne, 1984- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, [2023]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hofmeyr, Isabel.
Humanities > Indian Ocean Region.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Visual communication > Africa.
Literature and society > Africa.
Books and reading > Africa.
Indian Ocean Region > Civilization.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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