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，利用后殖民主义战略和有声读物形式本身来批评非洲文学有声读物的制作和接受。有声读物与纸质、手稿、戏剧和电影不同，有声读物体裁的研究相对较少，理论化程度较低。我的项目通过采用多模式方法进行后殖民研究，并在更广泛的范围内测试传统文本和读者概念的局限性，填补了学术上的一个空白。

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.