Underdevelopment and African Literature : Emerging Forms of Reading
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
ISBN-10
1108713785
ISBN-13
9781108713788
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 28th, 2021
Print length
75 Pages
Weight
88 grams
Dimensions
12.80 x 17.80 x 0.80 cms
Ksh 2,500.00
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The legal publishing industry in Africa 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. This Element is a study of the emergence of new forms of reading in English in African cities.
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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