Investigating Postcolonial Affective Online Communities: A Computational Analysis of Reader Reviews for Contemporary Nigerian Fiction

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ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.1353/ari.2023.a905713

Hannah Pardey

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Abstract:This article approaches postcolonial affect through the combined perspectives of postcolonial and affect studies, audience research, and the digital humanities. It examines more than ten thousand online responses to recent Nigerian diasporic novels with various computer-based methods that bring to the fore the ideologies of emotion informing contemporary postcolonial reading practices. Using a theoretical and methodological framework covering socio-historical, materialist, and linguistic conceptions of community and emotion, this article demonstrates how platforms such as Amazon, Goodreads, and YouTube market postcolonial literary consumption by creating affective online communities of locally and ethnically diversified readers, allowing them to adjust their affective lexicon to the socioeconomic demands of the digital age. The results show that the online distribution and discussion of contemporary Nigerian fiction sideline national, ethnic, and cultural differences in favour of shared middle-class aspirations. Finally, this article illustrates that computational research designs do not exclude but rather invigorate the study of postcolonial issues such as domination, subordination, and exclusion.

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调查后殖民情感网络社区：当代尼日利亚小说读者评论的计算分析

摘要：本文从后殖民与情感研究、受众研究和数字人文学科的角度来探讨后殖民情感。它通过各种基于计算机的方法，研究了一万多篇对最近尼日利亚流散小说的在线回应，这些方法突出了当代后殖民阅读实践中的情感意识形态。本文使用涵盖社会历史、唯物主义和语言概念的社区和情感的理论和方法论框架，展示了亚马逊、Goodreads和YouTube等平台如何通过创建当地和种族多元化读者的情感在线社区来营销后殖民文学消费，允许他们根据数字时代的社会经济需求调整情感词汇。结果表明，当代尼日利亚小说的在线发行和讨论将国家、种族和文化差异排除在外，有利于中产阶级的共同愿望。最后，本文说明了计算研究设计并没有排斥，而是振兴了对后殖民问题的研究，如统治、从属和排斥。

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