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020 _a9781108713788
_qpbk
041 _aeng
082 _a820.998
_bBRO
100 _aBrouillette, Sarah
245 0 _aUnderdevelopment and African Literature
_c/ Sarah Brouillette
250 _a1st ed.
260 _bCambrdige,
_c2020.
_aUnited Kingdom:
300 _a86 p.:
_c18cm.
520 _aPeople looking for works in cities are immersed in English as the lingua franca of the mobile phone and the urban hustle – more effective instigations to reading than decades of work by traditional publishers and development agencies. The legal publishing industry campaigns to convince people to scorn pirates and plagiarists as a criminal underclass, and to instead purchase copyrighted, barcoded works that have the look of legitimacy about them
650 _aAfrican literature
942 _cENGLISH
999 _c524451
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