Highlighting the Merits of “Indian” Publishing and Literature at International Book Fairs and Festivals

Evain, Christine; Carolan, Simon

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“…Friendliness as a disposition and as strategy is not peculiar to the practice of Indian publishers at the FBF. Evain and Carolan's recounting of the chance first encounter between the Director of the Hay Festivals and a prominent Indian writer on a boat on Lake Ontario (Evain and Carolan, 2014) points to the role that friendliness as disposition and as strategy played in the franchising of the Hay Festival to Kerala, India. John Thompson's conceptualising of an 'economy of favours' (Thompson, 2012: 156) in which small publishers operate, through acts such as recommending designers to each other, sharing sales figures, and organising events at independent book stores, suggest that friendliness is being mobilised in various ways across the 'globalised' literary field.…”

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“…While the Kolkata Book Fair in India is the world’s largest in terms of number of visitors – over 2 million in 12 days (Evain and Carolan, 2014) – it is the FBF that has become a template for book fairs across the world. The history of the FBF is inextricable from the Western history of the book itself, dating back, as a general fair, to the middle ages, and then specifically as a book fair to the 15th century, when Gutenberg first invented movable type.…”

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The Survival of the Friendliest: Contemporary Indian Publishing in English at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Gonsalves

2015

Cultural Sociology

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This article examines the practice of Indian publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF). Fieldwork conducted at the FBF in 2012 suggests that friendliness is a disposition that is sometimes mobilised as a strategy by Indian publishers who are enabled yet constrained by the structural factors of the post-millennial Indian literary field. I argue that Indian publishers, as newcomers or outsiders, negotiate their positions at the FBF through strategies of friendliness mobilised in various ways: through friendly-consolidation and friendly-venturing by those in power in order to create new relations and to maintain and build on existing relations, as well through friendly-resistance by those in dominated positions to create new positions in the field. By thinking in friendliness, the strategies mobilised by Indian publishers provide a counterpoint to the Bourdieusian envisioning of the engagement between the establishment and newcomers as discontinuity and rupture.

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The Survival of the Friendliest: Contemporary Indian Publishing in English at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Gonsalves

2015

Cultural Sociology

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Geographies of fairs of West Bengal: spatio-temporal and cultural narratives

Bhandary,

Behera,

Roy

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Ugandan Literature: the Questions of Identity, Voice and Context

Evain¹,

Twongyeirwe²,

Ntangaare³

et al. 2018

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In this article, the authors attempt to describe the character of the Ugandan book focusing especially on the ways the literature is impacted and or impacts the country"s identity, voice, and future. Sometimes, common themes that appear in the literature have come to crystalize national identity in spite of the complex issues generated by years of colonialism and neo-colonialism. Today more than before more Ugandans are able to read. The challenge, however, is that this readership seems to have conspired with the book publishing industry who thrive as business enterprises at the expense of building a national identity and voice, literary health, or cultural heritage. Where then and how can the critical voices grow or multiply? What contexts will grow the Ugandan book? How insoluble are the indigenous publishers? On the other hand, the book chain has been boosted by efforts some of them international like the literary awards and prizes, residences and book fairs. Hitherto ignored constituents like the women and indigenous publishers are also now on board. It is hoped these budding efforts will continue to grow, flourish, and consolidate the Ugandan book character.

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Highlighting the Merits of “Indian” Publishing and Literature at International Book Fairs and Festivals

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The Survival of the Friendliest: Contemporary Indian Publishing in English at the Frankfurt Book Fair

The Survival of the Friendliest: Contemporary Indian Publishing in English at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Geographies of fairs of West Bengal: spatio-temporal and cultural narratives

Ugandan Literature: the Questions of Identity, Voice and Context

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