Democracy and Literature: Everyday Experiences, Public Spaces, Political Regimes

This issue of Communications analyses how literature contributes to the public space and its democratization. What is specific about literature's intervention in the public sphere? In what way is literature part of the domain of public speech? In other words, what does literature achieve in the world, in the democratic debate today, regardless of whether the public space for this debate is deemed to be established or denied? These questions are explored through a series of historical and contemporary examples, in different cultural and political contexts, in different countries