Gatekeepers
The Emergence of World Literature and the 1960s
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 May 2016
- ISBN 9780190274146
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages230 pages
- Size 236x160x25 mm
- Weight 540 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Gatekeepers tells the behind-the-scenes stories of how four now-iconic writers (Gabriel García Márquez, Charles Bukowski, Paul Auster and Haruki Murakami) rose from being unknown entities in their own countries to having international reputations.
MoreLong description:
The romantic idea of the writer as an isolated genius has been discredited, but there are few empirical studies documenting the role of "gatekeeping" in the literary process. How do friends, agents, editors, translators, small publishers, and reviewers--not to mention the changes in technology and the publishing industry--shape the literary process? This matrix is further complicated when books cross cultural and language barriers, that is, when they become part of World Literature.
This study builds on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Randall Collins, James English and Mark McGurl, describing the multi-layered gatekeeping process in the context of World Literature after the 1960s. It focuses on four case studies: Gabriel García Márquez, Charles Bukowski, Paul Auster and Haruki Murakami. The two American authors achieved remarkable success overseas owing to perspicacious gatekeepers; the two international authors benefited tremendously from well-curated translation into English.
Rich in archival materials (correspondence between authors, editors, and translators, and publishing industry analyses), interviews with publishers and translators, and close readings of translations, this study shows how the process and production of literature depends on the larger social forces of a given historical moment. The book also documents the ever-increasing Anglo-centric dictate on the gatekeeping process of World Literature. World Literature, the study argues, is not so much a "republic of letters" as a field of opportunities on which the conversation is partly bracketed by historic events and technological opportunities.
Written in clear, mostly jargon-free prose (except for its devotion to Collins's terms), the individual chapters provide career biographies of each author that are full of interesting and revealing anecdotes, such as Bukowski's television appearances in Germany.
Table of Contents:
Introduction - Gatekeeping and World Literature
Chapter 1 - Gabriel García Márquez: gatekeepers and prise de position
Chapter 2 - Charles Bukowski and the Entrepreneurs of World Literature
Chapter 3 - Paul Auster: "Bootstrapping" and foreign "exile."
Chapter 4 - Haruki Murakami: the prizes, process, and production of World Literature
Conclusion - Writers, Gatekeepers, Publishing, and History
