Reading the Globe: World-Literature as Research and Form

In this episode, we discuss how Sharae Deckard and her colleagues in the Warwick Research Collective are bringing world-systems theory to bear on world-literary analysis. Her explanations take us from the global as the interpretive horizon of fiction, to the role of collective work in studying the connection between global capitalism and literary genres, and then all the way to the usefulness of her approach in media beyond the purely literary such as graphic novels and videogames (and TikTok).