The global literary market expanded while keeping power in metropolitan centers.

Evidence

Literature is subject to the forces of globalization in the same way as all other cultural activities. We can see this process beginning even before the age of empire, when literature and its dissemination became a tool in the colonial project. More recently, as Brouillette observes, we have seen a proliferation of postcolonial writing as part of an expansion but also a niche fragmentation of the global book market. However, this expansion has still operated to keep power in the metropolitan centers, with the result that the publishing industry remains unrepresentative of non-Western and minority ethnic communities. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 57

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s hinge between Morey’s market-for-the-Muslim critique and Home Boy’s and The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s own circulation as market commodities. — connects to: Global publishing expansion keeps power concentrated in Western metropolitan centers — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 57
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Global publishing expansion keeps power concentrated in Western metropolitan centers — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 57

Broader Connections

• Global publishing expansion keeps power concentrated in Western metropolitan centers #corroborates (0.97) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 57