Saturday, December 08, 2007

National Literatures in the Globalised World

Globalisation is one of the most important forces influencing, positively as well as negatively, almost all aspects of our life. It seems that, in the sphere of culture, the influence is rather negative, since it results in suppressing unique features of individual national cultures in favour of a global, consumer and information-communicational culture.
However, alongside globalisation and unification trends, the present is characterised also by a postmodern emphasis on particularisation and relativity, which opens space for smaller regional, national, or ethnic groups and their unique vision of the world.