| الملخص: | This paper discusses recent models of world literature rewriting in
light of the 2018 Romanian Literature as World Literature, which remaps some of
the most representative Romanian authors and movements according to the
intersectional frameworks advanced by Immanuel Wallerstein’s world systemstheory, Pascale Casanova’s world republic of letters, and others. In their plea for
what the book’s editors call planetary, cosmopolitan studies, the sixteen
contributors reread canonical Romanian texts and advocate for a new literary
world order, within which Romanian literature is regarded in a less
hierarchical/dichotomic fashion, as a literature of the world. This initiative seeks
to reposition Romanian literature as a diverse, active, and dynamic partner in the
world’s cultural dialogue. My essay addresses a paradox which is very much at
the centre of the book: how can one promote intercultural, non-hegemonic
models of dialogue when translation and marketability still restrict the
participation of “marginal” cultures in the planetary, cosmopolitan exchange of
ideas?
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