Publishing from the South

Sarah Nuttall (Editor) Sarah Nuttall is Director of the Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research (WiSER) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.Isabel Hofmeyr (Editor) Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

• FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Experiments in Writing the History of a University Press – Sarah Nuttall and Isabel HofmeyrPart 1 Covers and ContractsChapter 1 Uncovered: One Hundred Years of Book Covers – Kirsten Perkins and Corina van der SpoelChapter 2 Relations, Contracts, and Books at Wits University Press: 1922–1962 – Jonathan KlaarenPart 2 Southern Contradictions and Black ContributorsChapter 3 B. W. Vilakazi, Ithongo Lokwazi: The Muse of Knowledge – Hlonipha MokoenaChapter 4 ‘The Hidden Matters of the Black People’: John Henderson Soga and The South-Eastern Bantu – Natasha ErlankChapter 5 Clement M. Doke and the Bantu Treasury: Laying Aesthetic Foundations for Modern African Literature – Innocentia MhlambiChapter 6 Paratextual Framings of the isiXhosa Volumes in the African Treasury Series – Athambile Masola and Sanele kaNtshinganaChapter 7 African Studies, a Journal on a Fault Line – Isabel HofmeyrChapter 8 Palaeosciences through Wits University Press Publications – Amanda EsterhuysenPart 3 Women in the HouseChapter 9 Writing While Female: Merit, Market and Gatekeeping in Academic Publishing – Shireen HassimChapter 10 Writing the (Female) Biography of a Publishing House – Elizabeth le RouxChapter 11 ‘That Body of [not only] Men’: Margaret Hutchings’ History of Wits University Press – Veronica KlippPart 4 Reading Wits Press Through Our BooksChapter 12 Book Paradise: Publishing Regarding Muslims and Surfacing with Wits University Press – Gabeba BaderoonChapter 13 On Academic Inclusion, or A Story of Three Books – Srila RoyChapter 14 Experiments in Publishing: A Journey with Academic, Commercial, Independent and Academic Publishers – Siphiwo MahalaChapter 15 The Psychologist Who had a Lingering Hope of Being a Fiction Writer: Noel Chabani Manganyi – Kopano RateleChapter 16 Translated Authorship and Language Futures – Achille MbembeAfterword: Time-Travelling in the Archive – Ivan VladislavićContributorsIndex