Table of Contents
Introduction
Caroline Davis, Archie Dick and Elizabeth le Roux
Reading Communities and Circuits
1. Reading Authors of the Enlightenment at the Cape of Good Hope from the Late 1780s to the Early 1830s
Archie L. Dick
2. The Black House’, or How the Zulus Became Jews
Hlonipha Mokoena
Transnational Publishing Histories
3. Setting Trans-Vaal Scenes in German Type: Missionary Carl Hoffmann’s Book Designs, ca. 1900–1930
Lize Kriel
4. History by Paratext: Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka
Corinne Sandwith
5. A Question of Power: Bessie Head and her Publishers
Caroline Davis
6. Minding Their Own Business: Penguin in Southern Africa
Alistair McCleery
Print, Publishing and Politics
7. ‘To See Us as We See Ourselves’: John Tengo Jabavu and the Politics of the Black Periodical
Khwezi Mkhize
8. What ‘Other Devils’? The Texts of Sol T. Plaatje’s Mhudi Revisited
Brian Willan
9. Miriam Tlali and Ravan Press: Politics and Power in Literary Publishing during the Apartheid Period
Elizabeth Le Roux
10. Anatomy of the Challenges Facing Zambian Writers and Publishers of Literary Works
Cheela Himutwe K. Chilala