Introduction
1. UNESCO's Collection of Representative Works
2. America's Postwar Hegemony
3. Cultural Policy and the Perils of Development
4. Book Hunger
5. Policy Making for the Creative Industries Today
6. Pirates and Pipe Dreams
Conclusion
Sarah Brouillette is Professor of English at Carleton University and the author of Literature and the Creative Economy (Stanford, 2014).
"Brouillette brings to our attention a signal institution of
postwar global culture, one that has been all but entirely ignored
in previous studies of world literature. In her impressive and
bracingly severe account, UNESCO becomes an institutional lens
through which we can see the much larger and more powerful set of
economic realities that have shaped our sense of what role
literature should play in the world at large."—Mark McGurl,
Stanford University
"This book adds another dimension to Brouillette's already
impressive scholarship on postcolonial literature and the global
economic downturn. With bracingly rigorous yet refreshingly
traditional methodology, she provides a bravura demonstration of
nuanced, non-reductive Marxist analysis."—Stephen Schryer,
University of New Brunswick
"In her probe of UNESCO's transformations, Sarah Brouillette
skewers the complacency of the reading class. Readers of this book,
all of whom will be members of this class, will be enlightened,
troubled, and perhaps mortified by their participation in the
consolations of the literary world, including its most critical and
politically aware corners. Brouillette's analysis is both necessary
and devastating."—Wendy Griswold, Northwestern University
"Sarah Brouillette's excellent new book, UNESCO and the Fate of the
Literary, grounds the category of 'world literature' in the only
literary institution capable of matching the concept's
scale....[Her] book is a powerful argument for the modest power of
literature, however long it lasts."—Christopher Findeisen, Los
Angeles Review of Books
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