‘(Not) readily available’: Kiran Nagarkar in the Global Market

Wiemann, Dirk

doi:10.1057/9781137437716_11

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“…Sarah Brouillette (2007: 62-63) has shown that Bourdieu (1992) himself intuited the obsolescence of that distinction in his postscript to Les Règles de l'art. At least in North America and Europe, the division between elite and commercial production is disappearing, as "[t]he very nature of the contemporary publishing industry makes claims to an authenticity defined by separation from the market a near impossibility" (Brouillette 2007: 63)in the "Global South", and notably in India, the two spheres tend to remain relatively more separate (Gupta 2015;Wiemann 2014). World literature today counts as a particular niche in a literary market in which it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish "between a 'euphemistic' realm of artistic promotion and public relations and the unashamedly profit-driven world of modern corporate commerce" (Huggan 2001: 213).…”

Section: Introduction: On World Literary Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

New York, Capital of World Literature? On Holocaust Memory and World Literary Value

Vermeulen

2017

Anglia

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The question of how world literary value is produced has been central to recent debates. While Pascale Casanova’s influential account of a relatively autonomous ‘world literary space’ follows the work of Pierre Bourdieu in applying economic metaphors to processes of world literary value production, this essay argues that Casanova’s 1999 account needs to be updated in light of recent economic and cultural developments: the economic and the literary sphere are no longer separate but fundamentally entwined, which means that processes of world literary value creation cannot be modeled as a pseudo-market. The essay traces ongoing debates on the transcultural circulation of Holocaust memory to put forward a more flexible and multifaceted model for the production of world literary value. To demonstrate the claim that world literary value is today articulated with other forms of value, the essay investigates the role of Holocaust memory in the recent world literary consecration of Roberto Bolaño, Karl-Ove Knausgaard, and Elena Ferrante. Concentrated around New York-based publishers and media, these three cases not only demonstrate the crucial role of Holocaust memory in articulating literary value, they also show the recent shift from Paris to New York as a primary center of world literary value production.

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Section: Introduction: On World Literary Valuementioning

confidence: 99%