Middlebrow 2.0 and the Affect : Online Reading Communities of the New Nigeri...
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Middlebrow 2.0 and the Affect : Online Reading Communities of the New Nigeri.... Middlebrow and the Affect : Online Reading Communities of the New Nigerian Novel, Hardcover by Pardey, Hannah, ISBN 1837644691, ISBN-13 9781837644698, Brand New, Free shipping in the US available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. It will be made available open access after three years. Middlebrow and the 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 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 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, th shows that the 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 literary economy proves inclusive of the postcolonial Other, but only with full reserve to middle-class norms and values.
