The volume assesses how literature responds to the demands of a global literary market. Combining analyses of the economic contexts of literary production with poetological reflections on the market and its influence on content and form, this volume offers insights into literature's role as a product of as well as a response to economic phenomena.

The volume offers an overview of the economic, political and cultural factors that influence the production of literature. By bringing together the research areas of literary criticism and book history, the volume focuses on narrative strategies, metaphors and tropes that reflect the market as a network of multi-conglomerates, authors, translators and readers. The global scope of the different contributions unites analyses of German, English, Spanish, French, Scandinavian, Indian and South African literature. The contributors attend carefully to the economic contexts of the literary production while simultaneously addressing the market's influence on content and form. Thoughts on poetological reflections of economic phenomena complement studies concerning the means of production and vice versa.

Autorentext

Franziska Jekel is a research associate in the Department of German Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Her specific research interest is in literary representations of poverty and in the aesthetics of uncertainty. Anna-Katharina Krüger completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität Munich as a member of the DFG Research Training Group Globalization and Literature. Her main teaching and research interests are in (post)colonial literature. Myriam-Naomi Walburg is an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature at University of Liège, Belgium. Her research focus lies on literary multilinguism, the poetics of translation and Postcolonial Studies.

Inhalt

Literature's role as a product of and response to economic phenomena - Literary criticism and representations of economism - Capitalism/financial markets - Poetological reflections on the market - Book history and the field of literary production - Agents of the literary field - The global literary market - Authorship - Identity politics