Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture

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.

• 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.

“This collection achieves its goal of demonstrating Bourdieu’s continued relevance in the field of Hispanic studies. … this volume adds important voices on culture and literature to that conversation.” (Katie J. Vater, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature STTCL, Vol. 43 (2), September, 2019)