Postcolonial studies has taken a significant turn since 2000 from
the post-structural focus on language and identity of the 1980s and
1990s to more materialist and sociological approaches. A key
theorist in inspiring this innovative new scholarship has been
Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies shows the
emergence of this strand of postcolonialism through collecting
texts that pioneered this approach-by Graham Huggan, Chris Bongie,
and Sarah Brouillette-as well as emerging scholarship that follows
the path these critics have established. This Bourdieu-inspired
work examines the institutions that structure the creation,
dissemination, and reception of world literature; the foundational
values of the field and its sometimes ambivalent relationship to
the popular; and the ways concepts like habitus, cultural capital,
consecration and anamnesis can be deployed in reading postcolonial
texts. Topics include explorations of the institutions of the field
such as the B.B.C.'s Caribbean voices program and the South African
publishing industry; analysis of Bourdieu's fieldwork in Algeria
during the decolonization era; and comparisons between Bourdieu's
work and alternative versions of literary sociology such as Pascale
Casanova's and Franco Moretti's. The sociological approach to
literature developed in the collected essays shows how, even if the
commodification of postcolonialism threatens to neutralize the
field's potential for resistance and opposition, a renewed project
of postcolonial critique can be built in the contaminated spaces of
globalization.
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