Introduction to Reading from the South (eBook)

African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr's work

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

Charne Lavery, Sarah Nuttall (Herausgeber)

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2023
238 Seiten
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-839-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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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Isabel Hofmeyr is one of the world's leading scholars on African print cultures, postcolonial literary histories, Indian Ocean studies and the oceanic humanities. For four decades and counting, her work has produced profound conceptual innovations from the global South and for the world at large. The essays gathered in Reading from the South 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. The collection focuses on Hofmeyr's life and work, her education and early career, her deep rootedness in place, and her political, creative and institution-building activities. The book captures Hofmeyr's innovative and original scholarship through published works that address a range of topics: orality and literacy, feminist literary criticism, transnational histories of the book, South-South cultural connections, and the phenomenology of reading within the Indian Ocean world and, indeed, around the globe. After reading the collection as a whole, scholars in the field will have a much deeper appreciation of Hofmeyr's work and the formidable contribution she has made to the study of African print cultures and oceanic humanities at large.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2023
• Verlagsort: Johannesburg
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: British colony • Colonial and Postcolonial studies • Colonial copyright • Colonial Period • customs house • dockside reading • histories of reading and writing • histories of the book and print culture • History • India • Indian Ocean studies • Indian-Ocean studies • Isabel Hofmeyr, print cultures, history of the book, oral literature, African literature, hydrocolonialism • maritime imperialis • maritime imperial studies • material culture • oceanic humanities • Oceanic Studies • popular culture • popular culture, dockside reading, transnational book cultures • Print Culture • transnational book cultures
• ISBN-10: 1-77614-839-8 / 1776148398
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77614-839-4 / 9781776148394