It will however be naïve to assume that any quality internal to the texts, especially a standardized quality like exoticism, will be enough to confer value on the literary commodity. Literary commodities, according to Ponzanesi, should not be viewed as “something fixed but as acquiring and giving meanings within a system of circulation, consumption and reception. This is what characterizes consumption as a mode of signification in which commodities no longer exist in and of themselves, but circulate as signs within a system of differences” (24).