Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic 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.    

1 Introduction.- Part I Conceptual Engagements and Legacies: Bourdieu Through Latin America.- 2 Bourdieu’s Imposition of Form andModernismo: The Symbolic Power of a Literary Movement.- 3 Bourdieu in Latin America Through the Eyes of Néstor García Canclini.- 4 Reading MexicanMestizaje 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’sMundo 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 inEl 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.