Sarah Brouillette, "Underdevelopment and African Literature: Emerging Forms of Reading" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
An interview with Sarah Brouillette
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
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Show Notes
In Underdevelopment and African Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Sarah Brouillette tackles the print culture and literature in English in South and East Africa. Starting from the period of the 1970s to the contemporary times. She analyses literary texts as well as textbooks and books written for the learners of the English language. She puts forth how piracy, short-fictions app, apps and so on form an intricate part of this diverse field.
Sarah Brouillette is a professor at Carleton University in Canada.
Gargi Binju is a researcher at the University of Tübingen.