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Date de parution
01 novembre 2024
Nombre de lectures
1
EAN13
9781776149278
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
7 Mo
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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Date de parution
01 novembre 2024
Nombre de lectures
1
EAN13
9781776149278
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
7 Mo
