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

[Mary Kelley]

Dear Derek

Wonderful news. Thanks so much for all you have done to make this possible

All best

Mary Kelley 
Sent from my iPhone

> On May 30, 2019, at 9:58 AM, Lester Monts <lmonts at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> Congratulations to all...very well done!
> -lester
> 
>> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 9:25 AM 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 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ---
>> 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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