Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

Introduction: Southern Lodestar: Isabel Hofmeyr's Life and Work

pp 1-32

Part 1 - High, Low and In-Between

pp 33-34

Chapter 1 - Transformations

pp 35-45

Chapter 2 - African Popular Literatures Rising

pp 46-56

Chapter 3 - Fluidity and Its Methodological Openings: Mobility and Discourse on the Eve of Colonialism

pp 57-74

Chapter 4 - Oral Genres and Home-Grown Print Culture

pp 75-86

Part 2 - Portable Methods

pp 87-88

Chapter 5 - Overcomers: A Historical Sketch

pp 89-96

Chapter 6 - Hemispheric Limits: Rethinking the Uses of Diaspora from South Africa

pp 97-105

Chapter 7 - What's the Rush? Slow Reading, Summary and A Brief History of Seven Killings

pp 106-122

Chapter 8 - Seeing Waters Afresh: Working with Isabel Hofmeyr

pp 123-134

Part 3 - Oceanic Turns

pp 135-136

Chapter 9 - A Turn to the Indian Ocean

pp 137-147

Chapter 10 - ‘The Sea's Watery Volume’: More-than-Book Ontologies and the Making of Empire History

pp 148-158

Chapter 11 - Amphibious Form: Southern Print Cultures on Indian Ocean Shores

pp 159-171

Chapter 12 - Wood and Water: Resonances from the Indian Ocean

pp 172-196

Part 4 - Closing Reflections

pp 197-198

Chapter 13 - Travel Disruptions: Irritability and Canonisation

pp 199-208

Proximate

pp 209-210

Contributors

pp 211-216

Index

pp 217-227