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OverviewEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect investigates the material conditions of producing, distributing and consuming the postcolonial in the Internet era. Bridging the gap between postcolonial and middlebrow studies, the digital humanities and the history of emotions, it employs corpus linguistics software to scrutinise more than 15,000 online responses to 20 new Nigerian novels, unearthing the patterns of affect that characterise the contemporary digital milieu of literary transmission. Building on materialist, social constructionist and linguistic approaches to community and emotion, the study illustrates how Amazon, Goodreads and YouTube capitalise on socially oriented cross-border reading practices by creating empathic communities of ethnically diverse yet socially balanced readers who use social media to fashion themselves as emotionally receptive members of a globalising middle-class formation. Offering a reproducible method for exploring new forms of postcolonial reader engagement that strengthens the postcolonial analysis of inclusion and exclusion, the book shows that the digital mediation of postcolonial literatures functions to appropriate various markers of identity and difference to the standards of bourgeois literary culture. The results highlight that the digital literary economy proves inclusive of the postcolonial Other, but only with full reserve to middle-class norms and values. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hannah PardeyPublisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Liverpool University Press Volume: 30 ISBN: 9781837644698ISBN 10: 1837644691 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 03 November 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations and Notations 1. Introduction: The Digital Milieu of Literary Transmission 2. The New Nigerian Novel as Middlebrow: Materialist and Narratological Approaches 3. Algorithms of Affect: The Digital Literary Economy 4. Communities 2.0: Reviewers, Reading Habits and Digital Labour 5. The Verbal Performance of Affect: Emotion Terms and Patterns 6. Coda: Revisiting the Digital Affect Appendix Bibliography IndexReviews“This book makes very strong arguments that I look forward to citing in my own future work. The book’s focus on emotion and the materiality of the digital is particularly welcome, and exactly what the field needs.” - Beth Driscoll Author InformationHannah Pardey is a Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Researcher at Leibniz University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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