‘WRITE LOCAL, SELL GLOBAL’: ANTHOLOGIZING THE WORLD LITERATURE DEBATES

Hind Essafir

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This paper is an attempt to draw the contours of the ongoing debates surrounding World Literature, and the multifarious theoretical articulations endeavouring to formulate cogent understandings of the actual global literary ecology. The transnational, translinguistic and transcultural vocation of World Literature as a new field is not only problematized but equally energized by the constant straddling of the ‘littérature -monde’ over the local and the global. Yet, fascinating as it is, this radiating worlding is not as natural as it might seem, as it thrives on a complex intersectionality, networking monopoly capital, marketeering and cultural mediation. Such a complexity is forcibly transferred to the debates surrounding World Literature, which by and large tend to replicate the theoretical density and looseness rampant in the field, generating not only critical sophistication, but scholarly anxiety as well.

 

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World Literature, debates, local/global, anxiety, globalization

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejls.v6i1.630

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