Reading from the South : African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr's work /
Reading from the South : African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr's work /
edited by Charne Lavery & Sarah Nuttall.
- 1 online resource (ix, 227 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 in the Indian Ocean world.
177614838X 9781776148387
22573/ctv2xzj1c3 JSTOR
Hofmeyr, Isabel.
Books and reading--Africa.
Literature and society--Africa.
Visual communication--Africa.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Humanities--Indian Ocean Region.
Livres et lecture--Afrique.
Litt�erature et soci�et�e--Afrique.
Communication visuelle--Afrique.
Postcolonialisme dans la litt�erature.
Books and reading
Civilization
Humanities
Literature and society
Postcolonialism in literature
Visual communication
Indian Ocean Region--Civilization.
Africa
Indian Ocean Region
Electronic books.
P85.H64 / R43 2023
801/.95092
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 in the Indian Ocean world.
177614838X 9781776148387
22573/ctv2xzj1c3 JSTOR
Hofmeyr, Isabel.
Books and reading--Africa.
Literature and society--Africa.
Visual communication--Africa.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Humanities--Indian Ocean Region.
Livres et lecture--Afrique.
Litt�erature et soci�et�e--Afrique.
Communication visuelle--Afrique.
Postcolonialisme dans la litt�erature.
Books and reading
Civilization
Humanities
Literature and society
Postcolonialism in literature
Visual communication
Indian Ocean Region--Civilization.
Africa
Indian Ocean Region
Electronic books.
P85.H64 / R43 2023
801/.95092