scholarly journals The literary field of queer cultural production in contemporary India: considering popular queer texts via Bourdieu

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. e21048
Author(s):  
Anil Pradhan

In The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature, sociologist Pierre Bourdieu puts forward the idea that culture is discursively produced and that the field that informs, constitutes, and problematizes cultural production is crucial towards understanding how cultural transactions, dynamics, and politics work. Since literature is a key marker of society’s outlook on and reception of sensitive subjects like non-heteronormativity, this article focuses on the queer literary field – LGBTQ+-related texts and publication – in/of contemporary India. To this end, I look into trends in publication of Indian queer literary texts in English since 1976 through Bourdieu’s concept of the cultural production of the field of queer literature and consider popular texts like Shikhandi: And Other Queer Tales They Don’t Tell You; Our Impossible Love; She Swiped Right into my Heart, and read them vis-à-vis Bourdieu’s theorization, in order to conceptualize an idea about how texts and contexts interact with each other towards (re-)producing and (re-)constructing contemporary queer culture(s) in the Indian context.

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Marc James Léger

Abstract In the late 1970s, Pierre Bourdieu argued that the field of cultural production was distinguished along class lines by three different modes of cultural habitus: bourgeois disinterestness, petty-bourgeois allodoxia and working-class necessity. Since that era, the petty-bourgeois habitus has become the dominant predisposition. Adding Bourdieu’s sociology of culture to Peter Bürger’s historicized theory of the emergence of the avant garde as a critique of the “institution art,” a new “avant garde hypothesis” becomes possible for today’s age of post-Fordist biocapitalism. Based on Jacques Lacan’s Four Discourses, the contemporary situation is shown to privilege specific forms of cultural production, in particular an activist Discourse of the Hysteric and a technocratic Discourse of the University. Psychoanalysis reveals the limits of these tendencies while also underscoring the archaic aspects of an aestheticist Discourse of the Master and the transferential logics of Analyst avant gardes.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-448
Author(s):  
Michael O’Krent

Abstract Videogames offer vast potential for critical reflection by humanities scholars, but the tendency of existing game studies scholarship to treat the rules of a game separately from the game’s social meaning suggests that videogames have no place in humanistic disciplines. This article challenges that notion by contrasting a cultural view of videogames with the dominant mere-technology view. Ecocriticism functions as a prestige language for videogames that permits entrance into what sociologist Pierre Bourdieu calls the field of cultural production. Ecology simultaneously provides metaphors for explaining videogame technology while allowing games to enter ongoing critical and cultural conversations. Humanists interested in but unfamiliar with videogames should therefore start with those with environmentalist themes. This article presents Horizon Zero Dawn (2017) as a case study. Horizon Zero Dawn presents a stylized pastoral pseudo-utopia that embraces ecofeminist calls to reconstruct rationality while challenging existing sexism in computing fields.


1996 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Huhn ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Randal Johnson

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Carmiña Navia Velasco

Resumen: Se aborda la discusión sobre las historiasliterarias colombianas en relación con el concepto delcanon a partir de la pregunta por el lugar que ocupa laproducción literaria femenina en las concepciones sobrelo que ha sido la literatura en este país. Se examinan, ala luz de de la categoría de género, los procesosliterarios que han configurado la tradición canónicaen el país, constatando cómo se han ignorado las vocesde las mujeres y con ello, sus textos se han perdido muchasveces. Este panorama comienza a cambiar con el trabajocrítico de María Mercedes Jaramillo, Angela InésRobledo, Flor María Rodríguez Arenas, Betty Osorio deNegret, Luisa Ballesteros. En su trabajo se repiensan lasbases de la nación moderna, desde una perspectiva quequiere integrar discursos que han permanecido periféricos.Se emplea el concepto de campo literario desarrolladopor Pierre Bourdieu, en el cual es central laproblemática de la distribución de capital cultural ypoder para examinar la posición de las mujeres en elcampo literario colombiano. Finalmente, se orienta laindagación hacia la recepción: ¿Cómo fueron recepcionadaslas obras escritas por mujeres? ¿Qué posibilidadestuvieron de circulación? ¿Desde qué presupuestosfueron leídas? La consideración concienzudade estas interrogantes permitirá construir una visión másamplia y más real del pueblo y de la cultura en Colombia.Palabras clave: historia literaria, canon, género,mujeres, campo literario, recepciónAbstract: This article discusses Colombian literaryhistory in relation to the concept of the canon, startingout from the question about the place the literaryproduction by women occupies in the conceptions aboutliterature in this country. In light of the category ofgender, the literary processes that have given shape tothe canonic tradition in Colombia are examined,discovering how women’s voices have been ignored,leading often to the loss of their literary texts. Thispanorama begins to change with the critical work ofMaría Mercedes Jaramillo, Angela Inés Robledo, FlorMaría Rodríguez Arenas, Betty Osorio de Negret, LuisaBallesteros, where the bases of the modern nation isrethought, from a perspective that would integratediscourses that have remained peripheral.The concept of literary field advanced by PierreBourdieu, in which the problem of the distribution ofcapital and power is central, is used to examine theposition of women in the Colombia literary field. Howwere the works by women received? What possibilitiesdid they have of being distributed? From whatpresuppositions were they read? The conscientiousconsideration of these questions will allow for theconstruction of a wider view of the Colombian peopleand their culture.Key words: literary history, canon, gender, women,literary field, reception


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Fransiskus Tri Wahyu Setiawan

The study aims to examine how different agents namely individuals, groups, and organizations form the Cambodian literary field compete through selected practices. Certain strategies are applied in accordance to the rules of game in the literary field production. Having different habitus and capitals, agents struggle and compete for positions in the literary field. Applying literary study and classical ethnographic methods this study shows that political distance from the government in the field of cultural production allows external forces to interfere and reshape the Cambodian literary field. Agents make the structure and are structured in dynamic competition within the field. Strategies are mainly intended to create new network and to gain legitimacy, thereby accumulating capitals. Bilingual Khmer/English literature is important literary phenomenon in Cambodia as it indicates practices of contestation in response to the global field of cultural production. 


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