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Reading from the South : African Print Cultures and Oceanic Turns in Isabel Hofmeyr's Work by Charne Lavery, Sarah Nuttall and Sunil Amrith (2023, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherWit's University Press
ISBN-101776148363
ISBN-139781776148363
eBay Product ID (ePID)21058379224
Product Key Features
Number of Pages200 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameReading from the South : African Print Cultures and Oceanic Turns in Isabel Hofmeyr's Work
SubjectPublishing, General
Publication Year2023
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorCharne Lavery, Sarah Nuttall, Sunil Amrith
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight12.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2023-457797
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal001.2092
Table Of ContentList of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Southern Lodestar: Isabel Hofmeyr's Life and Work - Charne Lavery Part I High, Low and In-between Chapter 1 Transformations - Khwezi Mkhize Chapter 2 African Popular Literatures Rising - James Ogude Chapter 3 Fluidity and Its Methodological Openings: Mobility and Discourse on the Eve of Colonialism - Carolyn Hamilton Chapter 4 Oral Genres and Home-Grown Print Culture - Karin Barber Part II Portable Methods Chapter 5 Overcomers: A Historical Sketch - Ranka Primorac Chapter 6 Hemispheric Limits: Rethinking the Uses of Diaspora from South Africa - Christopher EW Ouma Chapter 7 What's the Rush? Slow Reading, Summary and A Brief History of Seven Killings - Madhumita Lahiri Chapter 8 Seeing Waters Afresh: Working with Isabel Hofmeyr - Lakshmi Subramanian Part III Oceanic Turns Chapter 9 A Turn to the Indian Ocean - Sunil Amrith Chapter 10 'The Sea's Watery Volume': More-than-Book Ontologies and the Making of Empire History - Antoinette Burton Chapter 11 Amphibious Form: Southern Print Cultures on Indian Ocean Shores - Meg Samuelson Chapter 12 Wood and Water: Resonances from the Indian Ocean - Rimli Bhattacharya Part IV Closing Reflections Chapter 13 Travel Disruptions: Irritability and Canonisation - Danai S Mupotsa and Pumla Dineo Gqola Proximate - Gabeba Baderoon Contributors Index
SynopsisThis 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., This book covers concepts and methods from the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, a leading South African scholar of print cultures and intellectual trajectories in the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
LC Classification NumberCT3990
