Vivan Steemers

Francophone African Narratives and the Anglo-American Book Market

Ferment on the Fringes

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Produktbeschreibung

Ferment on the Fringes charts the trajectories of Francophone African narratives that reached the Anglo-American market, by analyzing the various institutional agents and agencies involved in the value-making process that accrues visibility to translated texts that eventually reach the Anglo-American book market.

Produktdetails

• After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781793617781
• ISBN-10: 1793617783
• Artikelnr.: 60596163

Autorenporträt

Vivan I. Steemers is associate professor of French at Western Michigan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Francophone African Narratives in a French and Global Publishing
Landscape
Chapter 2: Entering the Anglo-American Book Market
Chapter 3: Literary Awards for Minority Authors and their Impact on Further
Consecration
Chapter 4: Early Female Writing and its Reception on the Anglo-American
Book Market
Chapter 5: Transnational Reception and Appropriation of René Maran's
Batouala
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Corpus Narratives and Translations
Appendix 2: Mainstream Publishers of French Corpus Narratives
Appendix 3: Specialized Publishers of French Corpus Narratives
Appendix 4: Table A - French to English Translation Awards
Appendix 5: Table B - Any-Language-to-English Translation Awards/Grants and
Foreign Fiction Awards
Appendix 6: Table C - Literary Translation Prizes/Awards: Gender and
Minority Representation