This dissertation brings a new approach to Valle y Caviedes studies by using the theory of professional fields proposed by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, in conjunction with Norbert Elias’ work on court societies. Caviedes is considered the most significant satiric writer in the viceroyalty of Peru. His literary career is a crucial contribution to the Peruvian literary field of the 17th century and poses a particular interest regarding the relationship between the literary field and the field of power. My research focuses on Caviedes’ position in the colonial literary field as well as on his interaction with the colonial field of power in the viceroyalty of Peru in the 1600s.
The origins of the colonial literary field coincided with a moment of cultural splendor in the metropolis and received the influence of the Spanish Golden Age transforming it into a literature that manifests its own concerns and interests. The viceroys, who sponsored poetic communities and academies, brought Spanish court cultural to America. Accordingly, my work studies the relations between the writer and the court, as well as the cultural interaction between the viceroyalty and the metropolis.
It is essential for this work to know how the literature of the writer emerged and to have an idea of his habitus by reconstructing his network of relations. The colonial literary field appeared in the context of a court society very similar to its Spanish metropolitan counterpart that established in the Peruvian viceroyalty a political, social and cultural system where the agents of this field tried to position themselves.
Caviedes started being known in the colonial literary field and in Lima’ society through his main symbolic cultural capital: his satiric poetry. In this literary practice, he satirized the authorities of the Peruvian viceroyalty. The satirical poetry in Caviedes’ poems was part of the literary strategy that was motivated by the competitiveness and the search for distinction within the Peruvian colonial literary field.
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The viceroys, who sponsored poetic communities and academies, brought Spanish court cultural to America. Accordingly, my work studies the relations between the writer and the court, as well as the cultural interaction between the viceroyalty and the metropolis.</p><p>It is essential for this work to know how the literature of the writer emerged and to have an idea of his habitus by reconstructing his network of relations. The colonial literary field appeared in the context of a court society very similar to its Spanish metropolitan counterpart that established in the Peruvian viceroyalty a political, social and cultural system where the agents of this field tried to position themselves. </p><p>Caviedes started being known in the colonial literary field and in Lima’ society through his main symbolic cultural capital: his satiric poetry. In this literary practice, he satirized the authorities of the Peruvian viceroyalty. 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My research focuses on Caviedes’ position in the colonial literary field as well as on his interaction with the colonial field of power in the viceroyalty of Peru in the 1600s.
The origins of the colonial literary field coincided with a moment of cultural splendor in the metropolis and received the influence of the Spanish Golden Age transforming it into a literature that manifests its own concerns and interests. The viceroys, who sponsored poetic communities and academies, brought Spanish court cultural to America. Accordingly, my work studies the relations between the writer and the court, as well as the cultural interaction between the viceroyalty and the metropolis.
It is essential for this work to know how the literature of the writer emerged and to have an idea of his habitus by reconstructing his network of relations. The colonial literary field appeared in the context of a court society very similar to its Spanish metropolitan counterpart that established in the Peruvian viceroyalty a political, social and cultural system where the agents of this field tried to position themselves.
Caviedes started being known in the colonial literary field and in Lima’ society through his main symbolic cultural capital: his satiric poetry. In this literary practice, he satirized the authorities of the Peruvian viceroyalty. The satirical poetry in Caviedes’ poems was part of the literary strategy that was motivated by the competitiveness and the search for distinction within the Peruvian colonial literary field.
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