ABSTRACT

This special issue introduction maps the trajectories, histories, ecologies and genealogies of small magazine production and circulation in Africa, within the broader contexts of print cultural histories that frame intellectual, political and cultural communities in Africa and its diasporas in the long twentieth century. It argues for the ways in which the small magazine not only creates alternative audiences and publics, but frames the ecologies of literary and cultural production in the continent in relation to its diasporas. In this way, the introduction brings to sharper focus the ways in which small magazines have been part of a network, an “assemblage” at the intersection of the projects of decolonisation and anti-apartheid activism in relation to a broader project of Pan-Africanism that span the continent and its diasporas.

摘要

本期特刊介绍了非洲小杂志制作和发行的轨迹、历史、生态和谱系，在更广泛的印刷文化历史背景下描绘了 20 世纪非洲及其侨民的知识分子、政治和文化社区。它论证了小杂志不仅创造了另类的受众和公众，而且还构建了与其侨民相关的非洲大陆文学和文化生产的生态系统。通过这种方式，引言更加突出了小杂志成为网络一部分的方式，这是非殖民化和反种族隔离活动项目交叉点与泛非主义项目相关的“集合”横跨整个大陆及其侨民。