Francophone African Narratives and the Anglo-American Book Market
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Francophone African Narratives and the Anglo-American Book Market

Ferment on the Fringes

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  2. English
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Francophone African Narratives and the Anglo-American Book Market

Ferment on the Fringes

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2021
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781978799745
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
African Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Francophone African Narratives and the Anglo-American Book Market
  3. Series page
  4. Francophone African Narratives and the Anglo-AmericanBook Market: Ferment on the Fringes
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures and Tables
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. Chapter 1
  12. Francophone African Narratives in a French and Global Publishing Landscape
  13. Chapter 2
  14. Entering the Anglo-American Book Market
  15. Chapter 3
  16. Literary Awards for Minority Authors and Their Impact on Further Consecration
  17. Chapter 4
  18. Early Female Writing and Its Reception on the Anglo-American Book Market
  19. Chapter 5
  20. Transnational Reception and Appropriation of RenĂ© Maran’s Batouala
  21. Appendix 1
  22. Corpus Narratives and Translations
  23. Appendix 2
  24. Categorization of Mainstream Publishers in France
  25. Appendix 3
  26. Specialized Publishers of French Corpus Narratives
  27. Appendix 4
  28. Table A—French to English Translation Awards
  29. Appendix 5
  30. Table B—Any-Language-to-English Translation Awards/Grants and Foreign Fiction Awards1
  31. Appendix 6
  32. Table C—Literary Translation Prizes/Awards: Gender and Minority Representation in Corpus Narratives
  33. Bibliography
  34. Index
  35. About the Author

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