Sarah E. L. Bowskill

The Politics of Literary Prestige (eBook, PDF)

Prizes and Spanish American Literature

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501350795
• Artikelnr.: 63634353

Autorenporträt

Sarah E.L. Bowskill is Professor of Latin American Studies at Queen's University Belfast, UK. She is author of Gender, Nation and the Formation of the Twentieth-Century Mexican Literary Canon (2011). She specializes in the politics surrounding the reception, distribution and circulation of Spanish American cultural production particularly as it relates to canon formation and gender studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Literary Prestige, Politics,
the Prize Network and the Roles of the Author in Society 1. Literary
Prizes, Controversy and the State in Spanish America 2. Peninsular
Publishers, Spanish American Authors and Prizes for Literature in Spanish
3. Spanish American Authors on the World Stage 4. Roberto Bolaño, Carmen
Boullosa and Fernando Iwasaki Find their Voice in the Prizes Game 5. The
Premio Biblioteca Breve and the Forgotten Women of the Boom 6. Women
Winning Prizes: A No Win Situation? 7. Prizes for Literatures in Indigenous
Languages 8. The Never-Ending Network? References Index of Prizes General
Index