The Politics of Literary Prestige
Prizes and Spanish American Literature
- 224 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The Politics of Literary Prestige provides the first comprehensive study of prizes for Spanish American literature. Covering state-sponsored and publisher-run prizes including the Biblioteca Breve Prize – credited with launching the 'Boom' in Spanish American literature – the Premio Cervantes and the Nobel Prize for Literature, this book examines how prizes have underpinned different political agenda. As new political positions have emerged so have new awards and the role of the author in society has evolved. Prizes variously position the winners as public intellectual, spokesperson on the world stage or celebrity in the context of an increasingly globalized literature in Spanish. Drawing on a range of sources, Sarah E.L Bowskill analyses prizes from the perspective of different stakeholders including states, publishers, authors, judges and critics. In so doing, she untangles the inner workings of literary prizes in Spanish-speaking contexts, proposes the existence of a prizes network and demonstrates that attitudes to cultural prizes are not universal but are culturally determined.
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Table of contents
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Literary prestige, politics, the prize network and the roles of the author in society
- Chapter 1: Literary prizes, controversy and the state in Spanish America
- Chapter 2: Peninsular publishers, Spanish American authors and prizes for literature in Spanish
- Chapter 3: Spanish American authors on the world stage
- Chapter 4: Roberto Bolaño, Carmen Boullosa and Fernando Iwasaki find their voice in the prizes game
- Chapter 5: The Premio Biblioteca Breve and the forgotten women of the Boom
- Chapter 6: Women winning prizes: A no win situation?
- Chapter 7: Prizes for literatures in indigenous languages
- Chapter 8: The never-ending network?
- References
- Index of Prizes
- General Index