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The World Republic of Letters

Part of the Convergences: inventories of the present series
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The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality.

Rejecting facile talk of globalization, with its suggestion of a happy literary "melting pot," Pascale Casanova exposes an emerging regime of inequality in the world of letters, where minor languages and literatures are subject to the invisible but implacable violence of their dominant counterparts.

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Harvard University Press
0674010213 / 9780674010215
Paperback / softback
809.894
01/04/2007
United States
English
xiii, 420 p.
24 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: 2004.