Description: Further DetailsTitle: Francophone African Narratives and the Anglo-American Book MarketCondition: NewEAN: 9781793617781ISBN: 9781793617781Publisher: Lexington BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/01/2021Item Height: 242mmItem Length: 162mmItem Width: 23mmItem Weight: 608gAuthor: Vivan SteemersLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Ferment on the FringesISBN-10: 1793617783Description: In recent years, the material circumstances governing the production of African literature have been analyzed from a variety of angles. This study goes one step further by charting the trajectories of a corpus of francophone African (sub-Saharan) narratives subsequently translated into English. It examines the role of various institutional agents and agencies—publishers, preface writers, critics, translators, and literary award committees—involved in the value-making process that accrues visibility to these texts that eventually reach the Anglo-American book market. The author evinces that over time different types of publishers dominated, both within the original publishing space as in the foreign literary field, contingent on their specific mission—be it commercial, ideological or educational—as well as on socioeconomic and political circumstances. The study addresses the influence of the editorial paratextual framing—pandering to specific Western readerships—the potential interventionist function of the translator, and the consecrating mechanisms of literary and translation awards affecting both gender and minority representation. Drawing on the work by key sociologists and translation theorists, the author uses an innovative interdisciplinary methodology to analyze the corpus narratives. Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial FranceRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Francophone African Narratives and the Anglo-American Book Market
Title: Francophone African Narratives and the Anglo-American Book Market
EAN: 9781793617781
ISBN: 9781793617781
Release Date: 03/01/2021
Release Year: 2021
Subtitle: Ferment on the Fringes
ISBN-10: 1793617783
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Francophone African Narratives and the Anglo-American Book Market : Ferment on the Fringes
Language: English
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: American / African American, Books & Reading, African
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.5 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Author: Vivan Steemers
Item Length: 9.5 in
Series: After the Empire: the Francophone World and Postcolonial France Ser.
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
