Rethinking the Algerian publishing "boom:" perspectives of authors, booksellers, and publishers on transnational networks and local infrastructure.
Since 2000, fiction publishing in Algeria has been described by a number of scholars and cultural commentators as undergoing a "boom." New independent publishing houses are presented as providing the possibility for new authors to emerge and be published in Algeria, in close contact with an Algerian...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the African Literature Association Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 354 - 373 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2020
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