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<p>This is fantastic news! Thank you for the leadership and advice that you and Isabel provided us during the publication process. Many congratulations all around.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Derek Peterson <drpeters@umich.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 30, 2019 9:25 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> sugarman@lists.wits.ac.za<br>
<b>Cc:</b> ASC-Heritage; Keith Breckenridge; Derek Peterson; Madhumita Lahiri; Erlank, Natasha; Corinne Sandwith; Bhekizizwe Peterson; Aston Gonzalez; Mary Kelley<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Authorship and Print Sociability in African and African-American Newspapers</font>
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<div class="">Dear Wits and Michigan colleagues: </div>
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<div class="">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. </div>
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<div class="">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. </div>
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<div class="">Isabel Hofmeyr and Derek Peterson, ‘The Politics of the Page: Cutting and Pasting in South African and African-American Newspapers’</div>
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<div class="">Judith Irvine, ‘Minerva’s Orthography: Early Colonial Projects for Print Literacy in African Languages’</div>
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<div class="">Madhumita Lahiri, ‘The Pose of the Author: Colonial Africa and the Operations of Genre’</div>
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<div class="">Natasha Erlank, ‘Umteteli wa Bantu and the Constitution of Social Publics in the 1920s and 30s’</div>
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<div class="">Corinne Sandwith, ‘Well-seasoned Talks: The Newspaper Column and the Satirical Mode in South African Letters’</div>
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<div class="">Bhekizizwe Peterson, ‘Imagining and Appreciating the Long Eye of History: Race, Form, and Representation in Drum Magazine’s Serialisation of Wild Conquest’</div>
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<div class="">Aston Gonzalez, ‘William Dorsey and the Construction of an African American History Archive’</div>
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<div class="">Marry Kelley, ‘The Difference of Colour: Reading and Writing Abolitionism’</div>
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<div class="">The introductory essay by Isabel and myself can be downloaded here: </div>
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<div class="">Delighted to have this in print! </div>
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<div class="">With good wishes, </div>
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Dr. Derek R. Peterson, FBA<br class="">
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