Current Globalising Movement
The current globalising moment has seen the boom of neo-liberal global capitalism, of Anglophone literature and a revival of “world literature” as comparative literature for the global age. Ironically, “world literature” and Anglophone and Francophone literatures have successfully questioned the hegemony of national literatures and of English and French literatures more narrowly defined, but at the same time have tended to make invisible literatures in other languages and from other parts of the world. Festivals provide mini-stagings of the world, while internet magazines and sites, as well as small publishers, seek to circumvent the stranglehold of the Anglophone on global publishing.
On Some Recent Worrying over World Literature’s Commodity Status
World literature, Sarah Brouillette argues, could be understood as "a moment of purportedly global circulation that is really a moment of uneven distribution"
Morocco’s International Book Fair Emphasises Literary Exchange Across Africa
Morocco hosted the 23rd Annual Casablanca International Book Fair, featuring over 350 live exhibitors and spanning a ten-day period. Any book fan would be lost for hours among the maze of stands and rows upon rows of bookshelves.
International Solidarity in World Literature
In this podcast Dr Anna Bernard (King's College London) examines internationalist world literature by returning to a previous moment in world literary history: a selection of English-language poetry anthologies that were circulated within the anti-apartheid and Palestine solidarity movements in Britain in the 1970s and early 1980s.