{"id":14149,"date":"2021-02-16T12:29:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T10:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/2020-was-a-mess-but-copy\/"},"modified":"2021-02-16T13:16:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T11:16:46","slug":"spu-academics-publish-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spu-academics-publish-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Academics&#8217; publish in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Following their recent placement on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spu-academics-land-on-hss-awards-longlist\/\">2021 Human and Social Sciences (HSS) Awards long list,<\/a><\/strong> Sol Plaatje University\u2019s (SPU) Creative writing lecturer, Sabata-mpho Mokae and Extraordinary Professor, Brian Willan\u2019s book is making <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/boydellandbrewer.com\/9781847012760\/sol-plaatjes-mhudi-history-criticism-celebration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">international headlines in African literature<\/a><\/strong> for their book <i>Sol Plaatje Mhudi: History, Criticism, Celebration<\/i> which was recently published by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/boydellandbrewer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boydell &amp; Brewer<\/a><\/strong>, a specialised academic publisher in the United Kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">Boydell &amp; Brewer is an independent academic press based in England specializing in the publication of historical and critical works that are distributed across the humanities, including history, literature, music and the arts. They serve academics, specialists and learned institutions around the world and include long-standing imprints such as James Currey, Tamesis and Camden House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">The UK edition of <i>Sol Plaatje\u2019s Mhudi: History, Criticism, Celebration<\/i> focuses on the non-Africa readership, which includes the Americas and Europe that exemplifies the working intergenerational relationship between academics in which both, Professor Willan and Mr Mokae share an extraordinary interest in one of Africa&#8217;s most important literary works.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">International readers can pre-order this edition at $99 (US) and \u00a360 (UK). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">When asked why the book is so expensive abroad, Mokae jokingly says \u201cOur ideas flew business class from Kimberley to London\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">SPU is proud to see its academics make a mark in international publishing, flying the SPU flag high. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following their recent placement on the 2021 Human and Social Sciences (HSS) Awards long list, Sol Plaatje University\u2019s (SPU) Creative writing lecturer, Sabata-mpho Mokae and Extraordinary Professor, Brian Willan\u2019s book is making international headlines in African literature for their book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spu-academics-publish-in-the-uk\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,4],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-14149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanities-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14151,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14149\/revisions\/14151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14149"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=14149"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}