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Sarah Brouillette, "Underdevelopment and African Literature: Emerging Forms of Reading" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Sarah Brouillette, "Underdevelopment and African Literature: Emerging Forms of Reading" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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42 minutes
Released:
Apr 29, 2022
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Podcast episode
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In Underdevelopment and African Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Sarah Brouillette tackles the print culture and literature in English in South and East Africa. Starting from the period of the 1970s to the contemporary times. She analyses literary texts as well as textbooks and books written for the learners of the English language. She puts forth how piracy, short-fictions app, apps and so on form an intricate part of this diverse field.
Sarah Brouillette is a professor at Carleton University in Canada.
Gargi Binju is a researcher at the University of Tübingen.
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Sarah Brouillette is a professor at Carleton University in Canada.
Gargi Binju is a researcher at the University of Tübingen.
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Released:
Apr 29, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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