Reading from the South

Reading from the South

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Lavery, Charne
Wits University Press
EAN: 9781776148387
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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.
EAN 9781776148387
ISBN 177614838X
Binding Ebook
Publisher Wits University Press
Publication date August 1, 2023
Pages 238
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Amrith, Sunil; Baderoon, Gabeba; Barber, Karin; Bhattacharya, Rimli; Burton, Antoinette; Gqola, Pumla Dineo; Hamilton, Carolyn; Lahiri, Madhumita; Lavery, Charne; Mkhize, Khwezi; Mupotsa, Danai S; Nuttall, Sarah; Ogude, James; Ouma, Christopher EW; Primorac, Ranka; Samuelson, Meg; Subramanian, Lakshmi
Editors Lavery, Charne; Nuttall, Sarah