Underdevelopment and African literature : emerging forms of reading. [elektronicky zdroj]
| Autor: | Brouillette, Sarah, 1977-, author |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Informace o vydání: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Online; Non-fiction; Electronic document |
| ISSN: | 2514-8524 2514-8524. |
| Abstrakt: | Summary: 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. |
| Databáze: | Vybrané kolekce e-knih |
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