
Sarah Brouillette, "Underdevelopment and African Literature: Emerging Forms of Reading" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
New Books in African Studies
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Is This a Problem in the Global South?
Aan, when one ordinarily thinks of foreign publications in the global south, one thing associates withe more monitary sources and editorial resources. I mean, iam indian, and this we see to some extent india too, that er, if if you are a literary writer, youu almost would have to be published in u k or us, or something like that. A part of what's going on here is just the ongoing maintenance of a kind of global, unbalanced, uneven system of esteem and prestige,. where prestige is to an extent, not exclusively, but still seem t kind of like emerge from and be bestowed upon from former colonial powers. And so that dynamic,
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