The transformation of the publishing world in recent decades-which includes, among other things, the increasing significance of large retail outlets, the emergence and establishment of literary agents, and the merger of publishing houses into large media corporations-has been amply documented. Among the consequences for postcolonial literary fiction, and African English-language fiction, which is the subject here, are increasing use of the author as a public figure and marketing device, and heightened expectations on cultural representativity that link authors to particular places and cultures. With a focus on the initial and middle phases of his career, this article discusses the ways in which East African author Abdulrazak Gurnah has responded to such pressures in his novels and in essays and articles. It shows how both the form and the content of Gurnah's writing exemplify a double effort to complicate ideas which frame authors and their texts through culture-specific identities and the seemingly opposite, generalizing notion of the postcolonial' author which flattens history-a strategy of 'self-authorization' which can be seen as Gurnah's critical resistance towards received categories used in both book marketing and postcolonial authorship. In a further twist, this resistance is in some tension with Gurnah's choice to write in English and use an unmarked linguistic style and register since these seemingly align with marketing interests and enable easy translation which facilitates the global circulation of his books.

The four books in this limited series are an outcome of a major Swedish research project called 'Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures' , the aim of which has been to intervene -not least methodologically -in the current disciplinary development of world literature studies. The series is united by a common introductory chapter and approaches the vernacular in world literature across a range of fields, such as comparative literature, postcolonial literature and literary anthropology.

Context: Software companies must become better at delivering software to remain relevant in the market. Continuous integration and delivery practices promise to streamline software deliveries to end-users by implementing an automated software development and delivery pipeline. However, implementing or retrofitting an organization with such a pipeline is a substantial investment, while the reporting on benefits and their relevance in specific contexts/domains are vague. Aim: In this study, we explore continuous software engineering practices from an investment-benefit perspective. We identify what benefits can be attained by adopting continuous practices, what the associated investments and risks are, and analyze what parameters determine their relevance. Method: We perform a multiple case study to understand state-of-practice, organizational aims, and challenges in adopting continuous software engineering practices. We compare state-of-practice with state-of-the-art to validate the best practices and identify relevant gaps for further investigation. Results: We found that companies start the CI/CD adoption by automating and streamlining the internal development process with clear and immediate benefits. However, upgrading customers to continuous deliveries is a major obstacle due to existing agreements and customer push-back. Renegotiating existing agreements comes with a risk of losing customers and disrupting the whole organization. Conclusions: We conclude that the benefits of CI/CD are overstated in literature without considering the contextual and domain complexities rendering some benefits infeasible. We identify the need to understand the customer and organizational perspectives further and understand the contextual requirements towards the CI/CD.

Utbildningsprogram, kurser eller kursmoment där studenter arbetar med utmaningar, ofta formulerade av samarbetsparter utanför akademin – vilka ibland benämns ”challenge-based learning” – kan bidra till relevans och verklighetsanknytning i undervisning samt främja generella förmågor som samarbete, kommunikationsförmåga och kritiskt och analytiskt tänkande. Men utbildningsformen skapar också en rad problem kring undervisningsadministration, examinationsformer och organisation eftersom den bryter mot etablerade arbetssätt och traditioner inom universitetsväsendet. Den här texten beskriver och reflekterar över praktiska och pedagogiska erfarenheter från Södertörns högskola i arbetet med att etablera en lärosätesgemensam utmaningsbaserad kurs tillsammans med Karolinska Institutet och med samverkansparterna Huddinge och Botkyrka kommuner.

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