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This essay identifies "selling out" as an enduring yet evolving concern in anglophone literary history, from the late nineteenth century's divided literary field to the "program era" to the increasingly global circuits of contemporary literary commerce. It begins with Henry James, showing how his canonical statements on modern narrative form emerged from commercial negotiations--an economic prehistory of "craft." Selling out becomes a salient concern as intellectuals come to see commercial success as antithetical to modern art. This cultural anxiety changes, however, once creative writing programs begin systematically reconciling craft and commerce. Turning to Nam Le's celebrated short story collection The Boat, the second section shows how selling out came to entail a fear that minority writers might betray group solidarity through reductive or essentialist portrayals of identity. Finally, the essay's third section closes by situating Le within a global market for postcolonial fiction and its attendant concerns over commodifying exoticism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information related to "Under the Jaguar Sun" is a collection of three short stories by Italo Calvino. It reports the stories were to have been in a book entitled I cinque sensi (The Five Senses). It mentions that aim of Calvino is the acoustic surveillance of his realm, every corner of which is connected to the throne room by a twisting network of resonant tubes.

The article talks about autoexoticism in the provincial literature in France in 19th century and discusses the works of author Samuel-Henri Berthoud. Topics discussed include the history of the provinces in France at the beginning of the 19th century, the book "Chroniques" by Berthoud, and the short story collections of him.