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Affiche du document Publishing from the South

Publishing from the South

Sarah Nuttall

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183 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h17min.
This multi-authored volume offers a deep dive into the history, sociology, and politics of the oldest South African university press.In 2022 Wits University Press marked its centenary, making it the oldest university press in sub-Saharan Africa. While in part modelled on scholarly publishers from the global North, it has had to contend with the constraints of working under global South conditions: marginalisation within the university, budgetary limitations, small local markets, unequal access to international distribution and sales channels, and the privileging of English language publishing over indigenous languages. This volume showcases the history and achievements of the Press: from documenting its evolution through book covers and giving credence to some of the leading black intellectuals and writers of the early 20th century and the success of their works in spite of their authors’ racial marginalisation, to the role of women both in publishing and in the spaces afforded to women’s writing on the Press’s list. The collection concludes with author essays on the politics and experiences of choosing and working with a global South publisher. The collection shows the strategies deployed by the Press to professionalise Southern knowledge making and how local university presses support the scholarly mission of their universities for local and global audiences.Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Experiments in Writing the History of a University Press – Sarah Nuttall and Isabel Hofmeyr Part 1 Covers and Contracts Chapter 1 Uncovered: One Hundred Years of Book Covers – Kirsten Perkins and Corina van der Spoel Chapter 2 Relations, Contracts, and Books at Wits University Press: 1922–1962 – Jonathan Klaaren Part 2 Southern Contradictions and Black Contributors Chapter 3 B. W. Vilakazi, Ithongo Lokwazi: The Muse of Knowledge – Hlonipha Mokoena Chapter 4 ‘The Hidden Matters of the Black People’: John Henderson Soga and The South-Eastern Bantu – Natasha Erlank Chapter 5 Clement M. Doke and the Bantu Treasury: Laying Aesthetic Foundations for Modern African Literature – Innocentia Mhlambi Chapter 6 Paratextual Framings of the isiXhosa Volumes in the African Treasury Series – Athambile Masola and Sanele kaNtshingana Chapter 7 African Studies, a Journal on a Fault Line – Isabel Hofmeyr Chapter 8 Palaeosciences through Wits University Press Publications – Amanda Esterhuysen Part 3 Women in the House Chapter 9 Writing While Female: Merit, Market and Gatekeeping in Academic Publishing – Shireen Hassim Chapter 10 Writing the (Female) Biography of a Publishing House – Elizabeth le Roux Chapter 11 ‘That Body of [not only] Men’: Margaret Hutchings’ History of Wits University Press – Veronica Klipp Part 4 Reading Wits Press Through Our Books Chapter 12 Book Paradise: Publishing Regarding Muslims and Surfacing with Wits University Press – Gabeba Baderoon Chapter 13 On Academic Inclusion, or A Story of Three Books – Srila Roy Chapter 14 Experiments in Publishing: A Journey with Academic, Commercial, Independent and Academic Publishers – Siphiwo Mahala Chapter 15 The Psychologist Who had a Lingering Hope of Being a Fiction Writer: Noel Chabani Manganyi – Kopano Ratele Chapter 16 Translated Authorship and Language Futures – Achille Mbembe Afterword: Time-Travelling in the Archive – Ivan Vladislavić Contributors Index
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Affiche du document Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

Patrick Denman Flanery

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This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as varied as: the role of print cultures in contests over the nature of the colonial public sphere in the nineteenth century; orthography; iimbongi, orature and the canon; book- collecting and libraries; print and transnationalism; Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms; books in war; how the fates of South African texts, locally and globally, have been affected by their material instantiations; photocomics and other ephemera; censorship, during and after apartheid; books about art and books as art; local academic publishing; and the challenge of ‘book history’ for literary and cultural criticism in contemporary South Africa.1 Print, Text and Books in South Africa Andrew van der Vlies 2.1 Metonymies of Lead: Bullets, Type and Print Culture in South African Missionary Colonialism Le on de Kock 2.2 “Spread Far and Wide over the Surface of the Earth”: Evangelical Reading Formations and the Rise of a Transnational Public Sphere: The Case of the Cape Town Ladies’ Bible Association Isabel Hofmeyr 2.3 Textual Circuits and Intimate Relations: A Community of Letters across the Indian Ocean Meg Samuelson 3.1 Deneys Reitz and Imperial Co-option John Gouws 3.2 “Consequential Changes”: Daphne Rooke’s Mittee in America and South Africa Luc y Valerie Graham 3.3 Oprah’s Paton, or South Africa and the Globalisation of Suffering Rita Barnard 4.1 In (or From) the Heart of the Country: Local and Global Lives of Coetzee’s Anti-pastoral Andrew van der Vlies 4.2 Under Local Eyes: The South African Publishing Context of J. M. Coetzee’s Foe Jarad Zimbler 4.3 Limber: The Flexibilities of Post-Nobel Coetzee Patrick Denman Flanery 5.1 Colin Rae’s Malaboch: The Power of the Book in the (Mis)Representation of Kgaluši Sekete Mmaleboho Lize Kriel 5.2 “Send Your Books on Active Service”: The Books for Troops Scheme during the Second World War, 1939–1945 Archie L. Dick 5.3 From The Origin of Language to a Language of Origin: A Prologue to the Grey Collection Hedley Twidle 6.1 The Image of the Book in Xhosa Oral Poetry Jeff Opland 6.2 Written Out, Writing In: Orature in the South African Literary Canon Deborah Seddon 6.3 Not Western: Race, Reading and the South African Photocomic Lily Saint 7.1 The Politics of Obscenity: Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the Apartheid State Peter D. McDonald 7.2 “Deeply Racist, Superior and Patronising”: South African Literature Education and the “Gordimer Incident” Margriet van der Waal 7.3 Begging the Questions: Producing Shakespeare for Post-apartheid South African Schools Natasha Distiller 8.1 The Rise of the Surface: Emerging Questions for Reading and Criticism in South Africa Sarah Nuttall 8.2 Sailing a Smaller Ship: Publishing Art Books in South Africa Bronwyn Law –Viljoen 8.3 The University as Publisher: Towards a History of South African University Presses Elizabeth le Roux
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