期刊名称：Cultural Logic : an Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice
电子版ISSN：1097-3087
出版年度：2013
页码：157-173
出版社：Department of English and Foreign Languages
摘要：Th e last decade has seen the institutionalization of world literature as an aesthetic category . W orld literature has been the focus of both regional and international co nferences and has been canonized by various publishing houses, most notably in the form of the Norton Anthology of World Literature , which just released the T hird Edition in 2012 in 6 volumes. 1 The attractiveness of the contemporary world literature paradigm stems largely from David Damrosch's theorization that it should be considered " a mode of circulation and reading," rather than a model for comparison/contrast which would reiterate Eurocentric cultural hierarchies. Moreover, the supposed impartiality of the world literature concept is intended to counter the homology of globalization by restructuring cultural production according to a revolving door of perspectives that highlights the dialectic of locality/globality, what Damrosch refers to as a process of "transculturation" in which "foreign" works can "take shape in their local mani festations." 2 Similarly, the scholar Longxi Zhang locates what he calls the "unexpected affinities" along the West - East spectrum of literary production through the lens of comparative hermeneutics, showing that the rigorous re - reading of texts can rebuild what he terms "cultural homogeneity" within the disjunctive spaces of transnational culture.
