Sur les avantages et les désavantages des littératures périphériques
On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Peripheral Literature

Summary/Abstract: Taking as a starting point the volume Romanian Literature as World Literature, the essay investigates the relationships between the so-called major and the so-called minor literature. It also challenges all those approaches which claim that in the era of globalization and the Internet, the literary scene is a flat space where continental, national, and regional conditions of hegemony or subalternity are no longer present. The essay further questions the paradox according to which critical operations aimed at contesting certain cultural hegemonies, and primarily the United States, have better reception when promoted by institutions belonging to hegemonic cultures than when they are promoted by institutions of peripheral countries.

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