In its short history, the concept has been used and studied mainly in Central and Eastern European and literary scholarship, with most proponents of the idea being among Russian Formalists, Czech and Slovak Structuralists.
[1] Lately, the field has expanded into Latin American scholarship, suggesting alternative, decolonized and decentralized theories and interpretations for the literatures of the colonized periphery.
[1] Professor Dionýz Ďurišin, in his Theory of Interliterary Process, characterizes literariness, which Jakobson defines as an object of literary scholarship and not literature, as being of the "basic and essential quality", transcending the boundaries of individual literature, transforming into interliterariness.
[1] Ďurišin adopted a view in which the supra-ethnic and supra-national interliterary community, and all its constituent parts, share a common culture.
[2] In the late 1980s, an international project Specific Interliterary Communities was conceived and headed by Dionýz Ďurišin of the Slovak Academy.