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The argument thatAgainst World Literaturemakes about why we might perceive translation as a form of anti-capitalist or 'deowned' property does not jibe with basic features of the material organisation of the publishing industry and the intellectual-property regime on which it depends. While it is perhaps unfair to expect everyone to be a cultural materialist or literary sociologist, I point out a number of features of the organisation of the World Literature industry that trouble Apter's arguments about the anti-capitalist implications of our recognition of the untranslatable. Ultimately ownership is not a matter of perception, and non-owned literature, like non-alienated literary labour, cannot exist under capitalism. These circumstances will not change in the absence of some fundamental reorientation of the class dynamics of writing, publishing, and reading. To deown literature, the whole material constitution of the industry would have to be abolished and replaced with something else.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Totality Inside Out -- 1. Let the Dead Bury the Dead: Race, Gender, and Class Composition in the U.S. after 1965 -- 2. (Un)making Value: Reading Social Reproduction through the Question of Totality -- 3. Tripartheid: How Global White Supremacy Triumphs through Neoliberalism -- 4. Remapping the Race/Class Problematic -- 5. On Artistic Autonomy as a Bourgeois Fetish -- 6. Ecology with Totality: The Case of Morton's Hyperobjects and Klein's This Changes Everything -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index