The precarious state of the art: Writing the Global South and critical cosmopolitanism in the works of J.M. Coetzee and Roberto Bolaño

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1 See also the other contributions in Helgesson/Vermeulen (2015), or the study by Marling (2016) about gatekeepers, a work exemplary for the influence of specific actors within the global literary field. 2 Franco Moretti's notion of distant reading represents a completely different, yet no less problematic, attempt to tame this body of material; I will not discuss this in detail here.See the texts in Moretti (2013), as well as my extensive critique of Moretti and Casanova's Hegelian historiography in Loy (2017a).7 "La universidad está podrida" (Bolaño 2011: 39).8 "[C]omo si en estos tiempos de crisis en ningún lugar hicieran falta profesores de literatura" (Bolaño 2011: 46). 9 The ostensible motivation of these philologists bears an astonishing resemblance to the longing for "experiences of presence" on this side of a rationally founded hermeneutics, so prominently articulated by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht in Production of Presence (2003).See also Loy (2017b) for a critique of this concept.

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