Sarah Brouillette, "Underdevelopment and African Literature: Emerging Forms of Reading" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
New Books in Literary Studies
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A Brief History of Development
i was a little bit unsatisfied with the work in print culture studies, which had a tendency to sort of prioritizem the west. So i started thinking about how books themselves are a manifestation of and enmeshed in broader histories of development under development. And then i thought, well, that's an interesting thing to kind of think through. so i started, i started am, doing that am. The minigraphs were designed to be am sort of brief and clustered others that were on related topics. Caroline davis asked me if i was interested in writing one, and if i was working on anything relevant and i was, ah, so i did.
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