TY - BOOK AU - Lavery,Charne AU - Nuttall,Sarah TI - Reading from the South: African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr's work SN - 177614838X AV - P85.H64 R43 2023 U1 - 801/.95092 23/eng/20230804 PY - 2023///] CY - Johannesburg PB - Wits University Press KW - Hofmeyr, Isabel. KW - Books and reading KW - Africa KW - Literature and society KW - Visual communication KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - Humanities KW - Indian Ocean Region KW - Livres et lecture KW - Afrique KW - Litt�erature et soci�et�e KW - Communication visuelle KW - Postcolonialisme dans la litt�erature KW - fast KW - Civilization KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3402603 ER -