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Greenwich Meridian in New York? The Basque Literary Field in World Literature

Abstract In this paper, I analyse the place of the Basque Literary Field (BLF) in World Literature. Based on a systemic approach to literature, I propose a dichotomy between Pascale Casanova’s theory, where Paris is the centre of World Literature, and Serge Guilbaut’s ideas, where New York is the world’s art capital. Thus, I research the historical dynamics of the BLF and, in particular, its link with different literary capitals: Paris, San Sebastian, Madrid, and New York. New York, as the global capital of the cultural world, has been exerting more and more influence on the BLF, both on a new generation of writers (Cano, Uribe) and on some writers of the older generation—especially on Atxaga, who is the most international. I finish the paper by postulating that this tendency of the BLF, as an emergent Literary Field, may be interpreted as a global dynamic of World Literature.