[Sugarman] Authorship and Print Sociability in African and African-American Newspapers

[Keith Breckenridge]

Congratulations and thank you, Derek and all.  Well done!

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Keith Breckenridge  *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and
Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits,
 Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Phone +27(0)11-7174272 | Web:
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On Thu, 30 May 2019 at 15:25, Derek Peterson <drpeters at umich.edu> wrote:

> Dear Wits and Michigan colleagues:
>
> I am happy to say that the latest publication arising out of our ongoing
> Mellon-funded collaboration has just appeared in _Social Dynamics_, volume
> 45, no. 1.
>
> https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsdy20/45/1
>
> This special issue—which we have entitled ’Authorship and Print
> Sociability in African and African-American Newspapers’—arises out of a
> June 2016 workshop held in the Maropeng Hotel in Sterkfontein. It draws
> together scholars of African-American and African print cultures, exploring
> how the practice of reprinting, plagiarism, and archiving helped to
> constitute novel forms of sociality.
>
> The essays are as follows:
>
> Isabel Hofmeyr and Derek Peterson, ‘The Politics of the Page: Cutting and
> Pasting in South African and African-American Newspapers’
>
> Judith Irvine, ‘Minerva’s Orthography: Early Colonial Projects for Print
> Literacy in African Languages’
>
> Madhumita Lahiri, ‘The Pose of the Author: Colonial Africa and the
> Operations of Genre’
>
> Natasha Erlank, ‘Umteteli wa Bantu and the Constitution of Social Publics
> in the 1920s and 30s’
>
> Corinne Sandwith, ‘Well-seasoned Talks: The Newspaper Column and the
> Satirical Mode in South African Letters’
>
> Bhekizizwe Peterson, ‘Imagining and Appreciating the Long Eye of History:
> Race, Form, and Representation in Drum Magazine’s Serialisation of Wild
> Conquest’
>
> Aston Gonzalez, ‘William Dorsey and the Construction of an African
> American History Archive’
>
> Marry Kelley, ‘The Difference of Colour: Reading and Writing Abolitionism’
>
>
> The introductory essay by Isabel and myself can be downloaded here:
>
>
> https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/h3HGTYZyQCX7tWtZajD4/full?target=10.1080/02533952.2019.1589333
>
>
> Delighted to have this in print!
>
> With good wishes,
>
> Derek
>
>
>
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> Dr. Derek R. Peterson, FBA
> Professor of History & African Studies
> University of Michigan
> tel: (+1) 734 615 3608
> www.derekrpeterson.com
>
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