The Politics of Literary Prestige: Prizes and Spanish American Literature

Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Literary prestige, politics, the prize network and the roles of the author in society
	Prizes, prestige and politics
	The prize network
	Prizes and the roles of the author in society
	The critical context
	The structure of this book
Chapter 1: Literary prizes, controversy and the state in Spanish America
	State-sponsored national prizes for literature
	Brokering international relations with state-sponsored prizes
	Conclusions
Chapter 2: Peninsular publishers, Spanish American authors and prizes for literature in Spanish
	Publisher-run prizes and the struggle against fascism
	The hierarchies of contemporary global literature in Spanish
	Publisher prizes, the celebrity author and the author as spokesperson
Chapter 3: Spanish American authors on the world stage
	A licence to talk about politics
	Defenders of democracy
	Spanish American authors talk back
	Reclaiming universal literature and creating a genealogy of male authors
	Conclusions
Chapter 4: Roberto Bolaño, Carmen Boullosa and Fernando Iwasaki find their voice in the prizes game
	Critical reception and prizewinning strategies
		‘Sensini’
		España, aparta de mí estos premios
		El complot de los románticos
	Conclusions
Chapter 5: The Premio Biblioteca Breve and the forgotten women of the Boom
	Mairena and Tejera’s critical reception and extra-literary links to the Boom
	Mairena and Tejera’s aesthetic links to the Boom
	Los extraordinarios by Ana Mairena
	Sonámbulo del sol by Nivaria Tejera
Chapter 6: Women winning prizes: A no win situation?
	Evidencing the problem
		International prizes
		Prizes for literature in Spanish
		State-sponsored prizes restricted by nationality
		Prizes by genre
		Privately run prizes
		Women winning prizes for unpublished work submitted using pseudonym
		Women on the jury
		Prizes named after women
	Are women-only prizes the solution?
	Conclusions
Chapter 7: Prizes for literatures in indigenous languages
	The Premio Nezahualcóyotl in context
	Stakeholder perspectives
	The evolution of the Premio Nezahualcóyotl
	The creation of the new novel in indigenous languages expressing the shared concerns of a new generation
	Conclusions
Chapter 8: The never-ending network?
References
	Carlos Barral Archive, Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona
	Legal Documents
		Argentina
		Chile
		Panama
		Paraguay
		Venezuela
	Nobel Prize Documents
	Premio Cervantes Speeches
	Websites and Online Documents
	Articles from the Centro Nacional de Literatura CNL Archive, Mexico City
	General references
Index of Prizes
General Index