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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Imperial Middlebrow |
| Editors | Christoph Ehland, Jana Gohrisch |
| Place of Publication | Leiden |
| Pages | 218-239 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Publication series
| Name | Literary Modernism |
|---|---|
| Volume | 7 |
| ISSN (Print) | 2405-9315 |
Abstract
The chapter explores the interlaced digital pathways of the contemporary middlebrow to discuss consumption patterns of the new Nigerian novel. It demonstrates how authors, distributors and audiences create the digital affect, an affective online community of metropolitan and ethnically diverse readers whose interest in self-realization through empathetic but distanced suffering with others functions to adjust the middle-class emotional habitus to the conditions of an increasingly globalized market economy. Combining linguistic and literary-sociological categories of analysis to investigate the online community’s emotion talk, the chapter suggests a methodological procedure for studying the middlebrow in the digital age.
Keywords
- Digital affect, emotion dispositive, middlebrow 2.0, new Nigerian novel, sociology of literature
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities(all)
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Arts and Humanities(all)
- Literature and Literary Theory
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Imperial Middlebrow. ed. / Christoph Ehland; Jana Gohrisch. Leiden, 2020. p. 218-239 (Literary Modernism; Vol. 7).
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