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Globalisation of Cultural Circuits. The Case of International Awards for Fiction Cover

Globalisation of Cultural Circuits. The Case of International Awards for Fiction

By: Horea Bacanu  
Open Access
|Feb 2016

Abstract

In the international circuit of fictional texts from the last fifty years (perhaps even one hundred years, in some cases), several independent international organizations, academic and editorial platforms of critique and debate have been established. They have been organizing international contests, fine authorities of critical appreciation, evaluation and awarding of most prolific authors and most successful fictional texts: novels, short stories, stories or utopian and dystopian fictions. The allotment on cultural corridors, the geographical identification of both author and title dynamics which have been nominated at the most prestigious international awards for fiction demonstrates an increased emergence of several zones where wide international circulation texts were seldom, fifty years ago. In this paper, we suggest a reinterpretation and a comprehension of the political context from the contemporary fiction, by regrouping in one category, the three classical genres (historic novel, social novel, political novel) and also the universal fiction which implies characters and relations of power. Thus, we create a category which is known as „political fiction”. The increased individualization of this literary macro-genre called „political fiction” is also a creative answer to the high speed of circulation and at the general international amplitude with which contemporary socio-political novels are distributed.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eras-2015-0008 | Journal eISSN: 2286-2552 | Journal ISSN: 2286-2102
Language: English
Page range: 19 - 30
Published on: Feb 3, 2016
Published by: West University of Timisoara
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2016 Horea Bacanu, published by West University of Timisoara
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