The Politics of Literary Prestige

The Politics of Literary Prestige
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781501350788
ISBN-13 : 1501350781
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Literary Prestige by : Sarah E.L. Bowskill

Download or read book The Politics of Literary Prestige written by Sarah E.L. Bowskill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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