Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis, USA. He is the author of numerous books, the most recent of which is Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature (forthcoming). He has co-edited a dozen collections and has published over eighty scholarly articles on Latin American literature and culture.
Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture is a collective reflection on the value of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's work for the study of Spanish and Latin American literature and culture. The authors deploy Bourdieu's concepts in the study of Modernismo, avant-garde Mexico, contemporary Puerto Rican literature, Hispanism, Latin American cultural production, and more. Each essay is also a contribution to the study of the politics and economics of culture in Spain and Latin America. The book, as a whole, is in dialogue with recent methodological and theoretical interventions in cultural sociology and Latin American and Iberian studies.
Provides a wide-ranging reflection on questions of cultural power and symbolic capital
1 Introduction.- Part I Conceptual Engagements and Legacies: Bourdieu Through Latin America.- 2 Bourdieu's Imposition of Form and
Modernismo: The Symbolic Power of a Literary Movement.- 3 Bourdieu in Latin America Through the Eyes of Néstor García Canclini.- 4 Reading Mexican
Mestizaje and Carlos Fuentes Through Bourdieu.- Part II Field Theory and Latin American Culture.- 5 Aesthetic Rivalries in Avant-Garde Mexico: Art Writing and The Field of Cultural Production.- 6 José María Arguedas, Creator of Creators.
Arte Popular in the Field of Cultural Production.- 7 Cruel Dispositions: Queer Literature, the Contemporary Puerto Rican Literary Field and Luis Negrón's
Mundo Cruel (2010).- 8 The Public Economy of Prestige. Mexican Literature and the Paradox of State-Funded Symbolic Capital.- Part III Iberian and Transatlantic Cultural Fields.- 9 Discord and Solidarity: Spain, Argentina, and Mexico in
El Estudiante (Salamanca,Madrid 1924-26).- 10 Below and Above the Nation: Bourdieu, Hispanism, and Literary History.- 11 Pierre Bourdieu, Indignado: Social and Symbolic Struggles in Spain's 15-M.- 12 Post Scriptum: Illusio and the Reproduction of the Corps-Notes from an Ambivalent Gatekeeper.
