| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 227 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 21, 2023) |
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Hofmeyr, Isabel.
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Books and reading -- Africa
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Literature and society -- Africa
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Visual communication -- Africa
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Humanities -- Indian Ocean Region
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Books and reading
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Civilization
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Humanities
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Literature and society
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Postcolonialism in literature
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Visual communication
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| SUBJECT |
Indian Ocean Region -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064987
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| Subject |
Africa
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Indian Ocean Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lavery, Charne, 1984- editor.
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Nuttall, Sarah, editor.
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| ISBN |
177614838X |
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9781776148387 |
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