This book asks what reading means in India, Nigeria, the UK, and
Cuba, through close readings of literary texts from postcolonial,
spatial, architectural, cartographic, materialist, trauma, and
gender perspectives. It contextualises these close readings through
new interpretations of local literary marketplaces to assert the
significance of local, not global meanings. The book offers longer
case studies on novels that stage important reading moments: Alejo
Carpentier's The Lost Steps (1953), Leonardo Padura's Adios,
Hemingway (2001), Tabish Khair's Filming (2007), Chibundhu Onuzo's
Welcome to Lagos (2017), and Zadie Smith's Swing Time (2016).
Chapters argue that while India's literary market was disrupted by
Partition, literature offers a means of moving beyond trauma; in
post-Revolutionary Cuba, the Special Period led to exploitation of
Cuban literary culture, resulting in texts that foreground reading
spaces; in Nigeria, the market hosts meeting, negotiation,
reflection, and trade, including the writer's trade; while Black
consciousness bookshops and writing in Britain operated to
challenge the UK literary market, a project still underway. This
book is a vindication of reading, and of the resistant power and
creative potential of local literary marketplaces. It insists on
'located reading', enabling close reading of world literatures
sited in their local materialities.
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