Politics and Literary Prizes:A Case Study of Spanish America and the Premio Cervantes

The Premio Cervantes, one of the most prestigious prizes awarded for literature in the Spanish language, was established in 1976 as Spain negotiated the Transition to democracy in the post-Franco era. This article examines the context in which the prize was created and subsequently used to negotiate inter-continental relations between Spain and Latin America. The article highlights the exchanges of economic, political and symbolic capital which took place between the Spanish State, its representative, the King of Spain, and winning Latin American authors. Significantly, the involvement of the Spanish State is shown to bring political capital into play in a way that commercial prizes do not. In so doing, the Premio Cervantes gives those formerly at the colonial periphery the opportunity to speak out and negotiate the terms of a new kind of relationship with the former colonial center.

The diplomatic relations of the United States and Spanish America.

Mode of access: Internet.

Bibliotheca mexicana: or, A catalogue of the library of rare books and important manuscripts relating to Mexico and other parts of Spanish America, formed by the late Señor Don José Fernando Ramirez ...days of sale ...July [7-9, 12-13, 1880] ...sold ...by Puttick and Simpson ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Trade and transportation between the United States and Spanish America /

Mode of access: Internet.

Spanish America in song and story, selections representing Hispano-American letters from the conquest to the present day,

Mode of access: Internet.

Spanish America;

Mode of access: Internet.

Spanish America : its romance, reality and future /

Includes index.

The literary history of Spanish America /

Includes index.

Spain and Spanish America in the libraries of the University of California, a catalogue of books ...

Mode of access: Internet.

The literary history of Spanish America,

Bibliography: p. 477-482.

Terry's short cut to Spanish; a new, easy, and quick method for learning the Spanish language as spoken in Spanish-America and in Spain, combined with a pronouncing phrase book for travelers in Spanish-speaking countries,

Includes bibliographies and index.

An exposition of the commerce of Spanish America, with some observations upon its importance to the United States .. /

Shaw & Shoemaker

Spanish America : or, A descriptive, historical, and geographical account of the dominions of Spain in the Western hemisphere, continental and insular; illustrated by a map of Spanish North America, and the West-India islands; a map of Spanish South America, and an engraving, representing the comparative altitudes of the mountains in those regions /

Includes index.