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Reading from the South : African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr's work / edited by Charne Lavery & Sarah Nuttall.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, [2023]Copyright date: �2023Description: 1 online resource (ix, 227 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 177614838X
  • 9781776148387
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 801/.95092 23/eng/20230804
LOC classification:
  • P85.H64 R43 2023
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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