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Dialectical Exchange of Linguistic Capital in  Literary Field, Grand Xicano Biblioteca Manhatta / 16 June 2004: Scylla & Charybdis

4/22/2016

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Abstract of Argument/Analysis
To “approach texts [. . .] as imagined social interaction”
 
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economizing linguistic exchanges
conceptualize specific logic
behind balances of power
in relations to symbolic prestige[1]
& economic power[2] 
 
Entonces
Chastitellez subject representing & projecting himself
in a dialectic exchange thru Chastitellez as medium
 
Huevo
myth of intellectual as a social category independent of class 
 
Huevo
As los Xicanos in  library do w/ “immortal” Anahuac
 
Re-Mortalizing Proletaroid Class Intelligentsia
whom Chastitellez attempts to re-mortalize
appraise unique “proletaroid class intelligentisa”
position of Chastitellez vis-a-vis Chastitellez
often-silent social forces structure  cultural determinants
shape  artist (or  restraints  artist works around). 
 
Pobresitos
For Chastitellez/Chastitellez  economic realities of his family’s impoverishment  one such determinant.   educated distinction pushing him away from his family & toward upward, artistic mobility moves him to cooperatively & competitively participate w/  Manhatta literati in his own disempowerment in order to symbolically break free from his kin on his path to fatherhood.  In this competitive economy of literary critical exchange, Chastitellez intentionally loses in order to win by a “systematic inversion of  fundamental principles of all ordinary economies” (Bourdieu, Field 39).[3]  Chastitellez likewise symbolically pays any debts he owes these Xicanos in his epic,  one these scholars declared not to have been written yet by a Chickeno.


[1] one valuable form of cultural capital & what Chaley’s audience controls

[2] which intellectuals in general rarely control: “dominated faction of  dominant class”

[3] Samuel Beckett plays this technique as well: “fail better”.
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