All Stories

  1. Imperialism Above and Below the Water Line: Making Space Up (and Down) in a Colonial Port City

    Article • Interventions, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  2. The politics of the page: cutting and pasting in South African and African-American newspapers

    Article • Social Dynamics, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  3. Literary Ecologies of the Indian Ocean

    Article • English Studies in Africa, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  4. Obituary

    Article • Journal of Southern African Studies, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  5. South African Remains: E. P. Thompson, Biko, and the Limits of The Making of the English Working Class

    Article • Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, January 2015, Berghahn Journals

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  6. Introduction: World Literature and the Imperial Textual Commons

    Article • English Studies in Africa, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  7. Review of Randolph Vigne’sThomas Pringle: South African Pioneer, Poet & Abolitionist

    Article • English Studies in Africa, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  8. Paper Sons and Daughters: Growing up Chinese in South Africa: A Memoir. By Ufrieda Ho. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011. vii, 229 pp. $18.95 (paper).

    Article • The Journal of Asian Studies, November 2013, Duke University Press

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  9. AFRICAN HISTORY AND GLOBAL STUDIES: A VIEW FROM SOUTH AFRICA

    Article • The Journal of African History, November 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  10. South Africa's Indian Ocean – Notes from Johannesburg

    Article • History Compass, July 2013, Wiley

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  11. Gandhi's Printing Press

    Article • January 2013, Harvard University Press

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  12. Building a Nation from Words

    Article • January 2013, Duke University Press

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  13. South Africa’s Indian Ocean: Boer prisoners of war in India

    Article • Social Dynamics, September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  14. INTRODUCTION: PRINT CULTURES, NATIONALISMS AND PUBLICS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN

    Article • Africa, January 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  15. Bunyan: colonial, postcolonial

    Article • June 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  16. Universalizing the Indian Ocean

    Article • PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, May 2010, Modern Language Association (MLA)

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  17. Introduction

    Article • Social Dynamics, March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  18. Framing essay Circulation and public spheres

    Article • Social Dynamics, March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  19. BOOKS

    Article • Interventions, November 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  20. Introduction

    Article • Social Dynamics, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  21. Africa/India: Culture and circulation in the Indian Ocean

    Article • Scrutiny2, September 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  22. A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church

    Article • Journal of Religion in Africa, January 2008, Brill

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  23. South Africa/India: Re-Imagining the Disciplines

    Article • South African Historical Journal, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  24. Achille Mbembe in conversation with Isabel Hofmeyr

    Article • South African Historical Journal, January 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  25. The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of ‘The Pilgrim's Progress’, by Isabel Hofmeyr

    Article • Translation and Literature, September 2005, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  26. The Globe in the Text1: Towards a Transnational History of the Book

    Article • African Studies, July 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  27. Introduction

    Article • Scrutiny2, January 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  28. ‘Papa AK47’ or Lolita in Africa

    Article • Scrutiny2, January 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  29. Review article

    Article • African Studies, July 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  30. Popular Literature in Africa: Post-Resistance Perspectives

    Article • Social Dynamics, June 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  31. Specificities: 'Who can Bwogo Me?' Popular Culture in Kenya

    Article • Social Identities, September 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  32. How Bunyan Became English: Missionaries, Translation, and the Discipline of English Literature

    Article • Journal of British Studies, January 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  33. DREAMS, DOCUMENTS AND 'FETISHES': AFRICAN CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATIONS OF THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS

    Article • Journal of Religion in Africa, January 2002, Brill

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  34. BUNYAN IN AFRICA Text and Transition

    Article • Interventions, November 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  35. BUNYAN IN AFRICA Text and Transition

    Article • Interventions, November 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  36. Special Issue for Shula Marks

    Article • Journal of Southern African Studies, September 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  37. BUNYAN IN AFRICA Text and Transition

    Article • Interventions, January 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  38. Metaphorical books

    Article • Current Writing, January 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  39. Connections

    Article • African Studies, December 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  40. Not the Magic Talisman: Rethinking Oral Literature in South Africa

    Article • World Literature Today, January 1996, JSTOR

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  41. ‘Wailing for purity’

    Article • African Studies, January 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  42. Oral History as Farce? ‐ Oral History as a Changing Phenomenon

    Article • Journal of Literary Studies, March 1994, UNISA Press

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  43. Introduction: Exploring experimental testimony ‐A seclection of history workshop papers

    Article • Social Dynamics, December 1988, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr

  44. Popularizing History: the Case of Gustav Preller

    Article • The Journal of African History, November 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Isabel Hofmeyr