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.
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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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Lakshmi Subramanian is Research Professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta, India. She is the author of Three Merchants of Bombay and A History of India 1707–1857.
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