On Aug 25, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> That's my prediction: that national and world literature will
> disappear
> and poets, composers, painters will produce only or mostly for
> those in
> their own communities.
Not to sound like a vulgar Marxist or anything, but this is going to happen in a world of instantaneous and near-costless communication? The whole underlying point of the passage in the Manifesto about a world literature is that capitalism had created a world economy, which means a global society. That's more true today than ever.
What is a "community" anyway? We travel, migrate, communicate like crazy.
Doug