Reading from the South: African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr?s work

Lavery, Charne; Nuttall, Sarah; Amrith, Sunil; Baderoon, Gabeba; Barber, Karin; Bhattacharya, Rimli; Burton, Antoinette; Gqola, Pumla Dineo; Hamilton, Carolyn; Mkhize, Khwezi; Mupotsa, Danai S; Ogude, James; Ouma, Christopher EW; Primorac, Ranka; Lahiri, Madhumita; Samuelson, Meg; Subramanian, Lakshmi

ISBN 10: 1776148363 / ISBN 13: 9781776148363

Edité par Wits University Press, 2023

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• Titre: Reading from the South: African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr?s work
• Éditeur: Wits University Press
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1776148363
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781776148363
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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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.

This book draws together reflective and analytical essays by renowned intellectuals from around the world who critically engage with the work of one of the global South's leading scholars of African print cultures and the oceanic humanities. Isabel Hofmeyr's scholarship spans more than four decades, and its sustained and long-term influence on her discipline and beyond is formidable.

While much of the history of print cultures has been written primarily from the North, Isabel Hofmeyr is one of the leading thinkers producing new knowledge in this area from Africa, the Indian Ocean world and the global South. Her major contribution encompasses the history of the book as well as shorter textual forms and abridged iterations of canonical works such as John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. She has done pioneering research on the ways in which such printed matter moves across the globe, focusing on intra-African trajectories and circulations as well as movements across land and sea, port and shore. The essays gathered here are written in a blend of intellectual and personal modes, and mostly by scholars of Indian and African descent. Via their engagement with Hofmeyr's path-breaking work, the essays in turn elaborate and contribute to studies of print culture as well as critical oceanic studies, consolidating their findings from the point of view of global South historical contexts and textual practices.

À propos des auteurs

Charne Lavery is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria and Co-director of the Oceanic Humanities for the Global South project based at WISER, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Sarah Nuttall is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies and Director of WISER at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Among her previously published books are Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Postapartheid and Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis.

Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University. He is author of Unruly Waters.

Gabeba Baderoon is a literary scholar, poet and Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University, where she also co-directs the African Feminist Initiative. She is the author of Regarding Muslims: from Slavery to Post-apartheid and four books of poetry, most recently The History of Intimacy.

Karin Barber is Emeritus Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham and Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Her publications include A History of African Popular Culture.