Making World Literature - Muenchrath, Anna
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"From universities to governments, the Big Five publishers to Amazon, the influence of institutions abounds in US publishing. A diverse array of books from around the globe have been made into world literature in the US, selected by editors, publishers, and bureaucrats, produced by non-profits and for-profit presses of all sizes, and distributed through schools, publishing programs, and bookstores. The "world" of world literature, Anna Muenchrath argues, is a heterogeneous network of people whose circulation of literature is necessarily imbricated in the market economy, but whose selections…mehr

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"From universities to governments, the Big Five publishers to Amazon, the influence of institutions abounds in US publishing. A diverse array of books from around the globe have been made into world literature in the US, selected by editors, publishers, and bureaucrats, produced by non-profits and for-profit presses of all sizes, and distributed through schools, publishing programs, and bookstores. The "world" of world literature, Anna Muenchrath argues, is a heterogeneous network of people whose circulation of literature is necessarily imbricated in the market economy, but whose selections might resist that economy and open new literary futures. Making World Literature posits that network theory can effectively model the agency of traditional actors and institutions in the literary field who make visible the long-term accrual of power as well as the choices of individuals who do not simply replicate the values of a global literary marketplace, but also divert, question, and undermine them. Through archival research and close readings, Muenchrath considers what those participating in a book's creation are trying to do in circulating a text, and what communities they are helping to form or strengthen"--
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Anna Muenchrath is assistant professor of English at the Florida Institute of Technology. Her scholarship has appeared in American Literature,  Post-45, Journal of World Literature, and Book History.