Prizing Debate

Auguscik, Anna

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“…86 Literary prizes do not simply award but rather produce the idea of a 'best novel' by concentrating conversation around particular texts and authors. 87 One way of stimulating such discursive attention is through the rhetoric of gossip and controversy. This, too, featured in The Vegetarian's win.…”

Section: Prizing Translation: the Vegetarian And The International Booker Prizementioning

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Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and the International Booker Prize: reading with and against world literary prestige

O’Key

2021

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In 2016, the English-language translation of Han Kang's 2007 novel The Vegetarian was awarded the Booker group's International Prize for fiction. Although reviewers have tended to interpret the novel's plot pessimistically, as a perilous descent into starvation, literary critics have argued that The Vegetarian dramatises an ecofeminist refusal of carnism and patriarchy. Yet both of these interpretations neglect crucial textual and extra-textual features of Han's novel. In fact, the text's generic and narrative ambiguities on the one side, and its celebrated position within contemporary world literary publishing culture on the other, suggest that there are limits to reading The Vegetarian as a radically posthumanist tale of becoming-plant. This essay therefore reconsiders The Vegetarian in light of its narrative form and its incorporation into the world literary canon. By doing this I will not only complicate existing close readings of Han Kang's work. I will also develop literary-sociological analyses of prize-giving and the publishing industry, while at the same time interrogating the extent to which contemporary literature challenges and becomes folded into global capital.

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Section: Prizing Translation: the Vegetarian And The International Booker Prizementioning

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Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and the International Booker Prize: reading with and against world literary prestige

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2021

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“…Book awards are a pervasive aspect of contemporary book culture, attracting substantial media and scholarly attention (Auguscik, 2017;Cain, 2018;English, 2004English, , 2005English, , 2013Flood, 2017Flood, , 2018aFlood, , 2018bO'Brien, 2017;Squires, 2007aSquires, , 2007bSquires, , 2007cSquires, , 2007dSquires, , 2013Roberts, 2011;Ramdarshan Bold and Norrick-Rühl, 2017). They confer prestige (English, 2005), generate marketing opportunities (Squires, 2007a), increase sales (The Guardian, 2012; Menon, 2013), and contribute to the early stages of canon formation (English, 2005(English, : 154, 2005Corse, 1996: 101).…”

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The First Rule of Judging Club…: Inside the Saltire Society Literary Awards

Marsden

Squires

2019

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change

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Book awards are a pervasive aspect of contemporary book culture, attracting both substantial media and scholarly attention. They confer prestige, create marketing opportunities, push sales, and contribute to the early stages of canon formation. Yet, beyond occasional media splashes when judges break ranks and disagree, there is little insight into the administrative and decision-making processes inside book awards. This article draws on the autoethnographic experiences of two academic researchers, who were simultaneously participants (as administrator and judge) for the Saltire Society Literary Awards. In so doing, the article gives insight into particular moments within the administration and judging of the awards, such as changes instigated by research findings and debates surrounding gender imbalance in Scottish literary award culture. It also examines some of the challenges of operating as embedded researchers. The article analyses what autoethnographic methods can bring to an understanding of the Saltire Society's Literary Awards and other cultural awards, and the implications of embedded research and collaborative autoethnography for 21st century book culture scholarship more widely. It reflects upon modes of embedded research by making evident the challenges and dilemmas of researching from the 'inside'. The ethical framework for such research is far from simple, but in exploring particular moments with perspectives from both inside and outside the judging processes, and in interrogating the practices of literary consecration, the article casts light upon this particular 'judging club' and its practices, and illuminates ways in which researchers might consider, orientate, and carry out further research into processes of cultural consecration.

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Weber¹

2020

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature

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Prizing Debate

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Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and the International Booker Prize: reading with and against world literary prestige

Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and the International Booker Prize: reading with and against world literary prestige

The First Rule of Judging Club…: Inside the Saltire Society Literary Awards

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