Underdevelopment and African Literature
Emerging Forms of Reading
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 28 January 2021
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781108713788 |
| ISBN10: | 1108713785 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 75 pages |
| Size: | 180x125x5 mm |
| Weight: | 800 g |
| Language: | English |
| 283 |
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Short description:
A study of the emergence of new forms of reading in English in African cities.
Long description:
People looking for works in cities are immersed in English as the lingua franca of the mobile phone and the urban hustle - more effective instigations to reading than decades of work by traditional publishers and development agencies. The legal publishing industry campaigns to convince people to scorn pirates and plagiarists as a criminal underclass, and to instead purchase copyrighted, barcoded works that have the look of legitimacy about them. They work with development industry officials to 'foster literacy' - meaning to grow the legal book trade as a contributor to national economic health, and police what and how the newly literate read. But harried cash-strapped audiences will read what and how they can, often outside of formal economies, and are increasingly turning to mobile phone platforms that sell texts at a fraction of the price of legally printed books.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. English as Immiseration; 3. How Europe Underdeveloped African Literature; 4. 'Nuance,' or: The Contemporary High-Literary Scene; 5. To 'Nurse Ambition'; 6. The Demotic Picaresque; 7. Bildung and Picaresque; 8. Conclusion.
