The Global Novel and Its Valuation System

Abstract This paper explores a still-too US -European centered valuation system and assess how it determines the literary value of specific novels in a way that there is a risk that the contemporary novel is only being defined by the capitalist world-system and by key institutions from Europe and the Western world. To this end, we take the global novel debate as a point of departure to examine what are the conditions that make broader recognition possible and to what extent the global-novel canon truly addresses cultural diversity. Considering two Latin American novelists, Samanta Schweblin and Ariana Harwicz, this paper decentralizes this debate and arises insights regarding 1) the debates of the global novel in a broad context and beyond Anglo-American academia; 2) the valuation dynamics of the global literary field; 3) tranmigrancy and hybridization as key features of global novelists; 4) the global novel and the translation of women Latin American writers in the literary marketplace, with a specific focus on the cases of Schweblin and Harwicz.