Global literary refractions: Reading Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters in the post-Cold War era

Ganguly, Debjani2015-12-081013-1752http://hdl.handle.net/1885/38048This article critically examines Pascale Casanova's recent theorization of the world literary space from the point of view of postcolonial and especially post-Cold War debates on global literary comparativism. It investigates whether her Bourdieu-derivedKeywords: comparative literature; globalisation; literary history; post-Cold War; postcolonialism; world literatureGlobal literary refractions: Reading Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters in the post-Cold War era200810.1080/10131752.2012.6954892016-02-24