Reading Across Worlds: Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 210585-75193-1282
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137276391
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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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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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- The culminating publication from a large AHRC-funded project, ‘Devolving Diasporas’, this 274pp book provides the first empirical study of transnational readerships. Working with readers across four continents (Europe, Africa, the Americas and South Asia), the fieldwork alone generated 3,400 pages of transcription and the book was researched and written over an 8-year period. Co-authored with a trained linguist (Benwell), it combines the methodologies of discourse analysis and literary and cultural studies. It is a book about how readers beyond the academy talk about, use and make sense of a literature that professional critics variously term ‘postcolonial’, ‘multicultural’, or ‘diasporic’.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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