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Underdevelopment and African Literature: Emerging Forms of Reading

By (author) Sarah Brouillette

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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.

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Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 WEEKS as local supplier is out of stock
Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Published date | 28 Jan 2021
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 75
Dimensions | 180 x 125 x 5mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 800g
ISBN | 978-1-1087-1378-8
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BISAC | history / africa / general


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