Making World Literature: Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States Since 1890 by Muenchrath, Anna
Making World Literature: Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States Since 1890 by Muenchrath, Anna

Making World Literature: Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States Since 1890

From universities to governments, the Big Five publishers to Amazon, the influence of institutions abounds in US...
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Making World Literature: Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States Since 1890 by Muenchrath, Anna

Making World Literature: Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States Since 1890

$45.68
Making World Literature: Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States Since 1890 by Muenchrath, Anna

Making World Literature: Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States Since 1890

$45.68
Author: Anna Muenchrath
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 resulting world literary canon is the product of complex negotiations between individual preferences and institutional mandates, as well as economic, cultural, and pedagogical logics. While book publishing has fallen increasingly under the sway of global capitalism, yet the literary world remains made up of a series of individuals making choices about whom to fund, teach, translate, edit, and publish. 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. Through archival research and close readings, this book considers what those participating are trying to do in circulating a text, and what communities they are helping to form or strengthen.

Making World Literature posits that network theory can effectively model the agency of actors and institutions in the literary field, making visible both the long-term accrual of power, as well as the choices of authors, translators, editors, and readers who do not simply replicate the values of a global literary marketplace, but divert, question, and undermine them. Muenchrath closely examines the paratexts and archival documents surrounding moments of global circulation in and through institutions like US world literature anthologies, the Council of Books in Wartime, the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Oprah's Book Club, and Amazon's translation imprint. The granularity of these case studies reveals the increasingly limited agency of the individual in the global literary field, demonstrating how such players are important actors, and how their choices open up further options for later actors seeking to take texts down new paths toward or after publication.

Author: Anna Muenchrath
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 12/27/2024
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.15w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781625348401

About the Author
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.
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