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.
List 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
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Reading from the South von Charne Lavery - mit der ISBN: 9781776148394
British colony; Colonial and Postcolonial studies; Colonial copyright; India; Indian Ocean studies; Indian-Ocean studies; Isabel Hofmeyr, print cultures, history of the book, oral literature, African literature, hydrocolonialism; Print culture; colonial period; customs house; histories of reading and writing; histories of the book and print culture; history; maritime imperialis; material culture; oceanic humanities; oceanic studies; popular culture, dockside reading, transnational book cultures, Online-Buchhandlung
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