Reasons for reading in postcolonial Zambia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178708 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ranka Primorac |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 497-511 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2012.720833 |
| OpenAlex | W2232287661 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
Built around a discussion of two interconnected case studies, the article seeks to help pave the way for a systematic study of a national literary tradition whose presence in the world literary space may be described as spectral. Through a discussion of a critically neglected Zambian literary archive from the 1960s and 1970s, and a survey of reading habits conducted in a Lusaka bookshop in 2010, it argues that Zambia’s postcolonial literature in English embodies what may be called a literariness of crisis, in which books are a desirable and valued but scarce social good; and that such sociopolitical conditions have been productive of a specific kind of local genre competence which may, in turn, be tied to a certain configuration of flexible and economical local ways of reading
Geography · Linguistics · Reading (process · African Education and Politics · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |