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Capitalist World Economy System and the Myth of World Literature Jihee Han (Gyeongsang National University) Even though Said criticized Orientalism inherent in the gaze of Westerners about thirty years ago, his notion provides a still relevant critical viewpoint in examining the discourses of world literature. Western scholars continue to imagine the “world” in world literature consists of Western countries and ‘Oriental’ countries. They select, appropriate, and reduce non-Western literary works when they represent the images of the Other in the Western mind and when they are palatable to the sophisticated tastes of European readers. Given this persistent Orientalism and cultural imperialism, it is now high time to look into the nature of the current discursive rise of world literature. Considering the present academic situation in which the gale-force winds so-called ineffective, low-yielding humanities departments in the universities all around the world, it is difficult to understand the revival of world literature discourses separate from the globalization of English and the capitalist world economy system. In particular, the debate over the original of world literature among the comparativists in American academia suggest the naked truth of the ideal World Republic of Letters which has been turned into a battle ground of capitalist desires. In exploring the ways to introduce Korean literature as a world literature, therefore, it is all the more necessary to be aware of the cold reality of current world literary market and prepared to engage in the discursive war with the myth of world literature.

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I. 들어가는 말
 II. 그들이 사는 세상 : 세계의 탄생과 체제적 기술전략
 III. 초국가적 가상공간으로서의 세계문학고 세계문화 시장의 강압적 영향력
 IV. 미국의 비교문학의 발전과 세계문학시장의 변화
 V. 나가며
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• 한지희 [ Jihee Han | 국립경상대학교 ]

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  인문언어 [LINGUA HUMANITATIS]

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  1598-2130

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  2000~2026

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  KDC 705 DDC 405