Publishing Africa in French : Literary institutions and decolonization 1945-1967
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 93819770
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- ISBN
- 9781781381953
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Based on extensive original research in publishers’ archives, this book won the First Book Prize of the African Literature Association. Its methodological intervention combines book history, literary analysis and theories of world literature. The book foregrounds the contribution of editors, translators, booksellers and readers to ideas of literary value, redefining our understanding of the French literary field in the mid-twentieth century. Case studies include canonical and ‘forgotten’ works of ‘African’ and ‘French’ literature. The book demonstrates that the material contexts of literary production are inextricable from reflection on what literature is and can be in times of world historical change.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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