Depoliticising literature, politicising diversity: ethno-racial boundaries in Dutch literary professionals’ aesthetic repertoires
| Autor: | Timo Koren, C. Delhaye |
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| Přispěvatelé: | ASCA (FGw) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Identity politics Field (Bourdieu) Repertoire media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Sociological research 0506 political science Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 050903 gender studies Aesthetics Anthropology 050602 political science & public administration Quality (philosophy) Sociology 0509 other social sciences Social science Diversity (politics) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Identities : Global Studies in Culture and Power, 26(2), 184-202. Routledge |
| ISSN: | 1070-289X |
| Popis: | Although still a neglected area, over the years a growing body of sociological research on the position of ethno-racial minorities in Western artistic fields has emerged. With this article we aim to contribute to this research area by focusing on ethno-racial diversity in the Dutch literary field. Through in-depth interviews, we analyse how gatekeepers mobilise specific cultural repertoires and by doing so draw ethno-racial boundaries when discussing acquisition, assessing quality and positioning themselves in the literary field. We argue that literary publishers and other professionals (selectively) employ an ‘old school’ modernist repertoire that especially values the formal aspects of literary products, by which non-white writers and publishers concerned with diversity are often positioned in an identity politics framework. Their work is said to take in a less prestigious ‘political’/’subjective’ position rather than a ‘literary’/‘universal’ one. As such, this paper informs on how gatekeepers’ practices shape the position of non-white authors in the Dutch literary field. |
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