Listening for Race: Audiobooks and the African Literary Reader

该项目将在形式和内容上突破传统学术模式和当代文学理论的界限，利用后殖民主义策略和有声书格式本身来批评非洲文学有声书的制作和接受。与印刷、手稿、戏剧和电影不同，有声书类型的研究和理论研究相对较少。我的项目通过采用多模态方法进行后殖民研究和更广泛地测试文本和读者的传统概念的限制，填补了奖学金的空白。

This project will push the boundaries of traditional modes of scholarship and contemporary literary theory in its form and content, utilising postcolonialist strategies and the audiobook format itself to critique the production and reception of African literary audiobooks. Unlike print, manuscript, theatre, and film, the audiobook genre remains relatively under-researched and under-theorized. My project fills a gap in scholarship by adopting a multimodal approach to postcolonial studies and testing the limits of conventional notions of text and reader more broadly.