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Afterword: Genre Queries, African Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2017

Moradewun Adejunmobi
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Abstract

This essay on genres acknowledges the constructed nature of the fluid classifications that form around recognized and recognizable types of creative work. Some systems of classification owe their recognition to powerful cultural intermediaries. Others, often located in the realm of popular culture, emerge without input from cultural intermediaries. As constructed groupings of works, genres matter for their ability to generate distinct circuits of transmission that allow for a specific type of encounter with the work and a type of response to the work.

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genre fictionpopular culturecultural intermediaries
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Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry , Volume 4 , Special Issue 2: Special Issue: African Genre , April 2017 , pp. 258 - 264
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© Cambridge University Press 2017 

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