Thomas Nulley-Valdés is assistant professor in Spanish studies at The Australian National University.

This is a brilliant contribution to the sociology of literature in Latin America and an exceptionally well researched and argued book. Using a world literature approach, with a critical emphasis on Bourdieu and Casanova, it carefully explores the place of the McOndo anthology, edited by Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez and published in Chile in 1996, in the constitution of a generation of Latin American writers and their relations with other literary actors in the literary field. This in depth case-study allows the author to significantly contribute to our understanding of the relations between the canon and the Latin American literary field or space. The interviews with all the writers and other actors involved are themselves, finally, a great contribution to the field.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Theorizing the Latin American Literature-WorldChapter 2: The McOndo Prologue, Controversy, and BeyondChapter 3: The McOndo Stories: Collective Readings and Individual NegotiationsChapter 4: The Trajectories of the McOndo authors: Mediating Structures, Illusios and Habitus in their Canonization or MarginalizationChapter 5: The canonization of the McOndo anthologyChapter 6: EpilogueBibliographyAbout the Author

Thomas Nulley-Valdés is assistant professor in Spanish studies at The Australian National University.

This is a brilliant contribution to the sociology of literature in Latin America and an exceptionally well researched and argued book. Using a world literature approach, with a critical emphasis on Bourdieu and Casanova, it carefully explores the place of the McOndo anthology, edited by Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez and published in Chile in 1996, in the constitution of a generation of Latin American writers and their relations with other literary actors in the literary field. This in depth case-study allows the author to significantly contribute to our understanding of the relations between the canon and the Latin American literary field or space. The interviews with all the writers and other actors involved are themselves, finally, a great contribution to the field.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Theorizing the Latin American Literature-WorldChapter 2: The McOndo Prologue, Controversy, and BeyondChapter 3: The McOndo Stories: Collective Readings and Individual NegotiationsChapter 4: The Trajectories of the McOndo authors: Mediating Structures, Illusios and Habitus in their Canonization or MarginalizationChapter 5: The canonization of the McOndo anthologyChapter 6: EpilogueBibliographyAbout the Author

Thomas Nulley-Valdés is assistant professor in Spanish studies at The Australian National University.

This is a brilliant contribution to the sociology of literature in Latin America and an exceptionally well researched and argued book. Using a world literature approach, with a critical emphasis on Bourdieu and Casanova, it carefully explores the place of the McOndo anthology, edited by Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez and published in Chile in 1996, in the constitution of a generation of Latin American writers and their relations with other literary actors in the literary field. This in depth case-study allows the author to significantly contribute to our understanding of the relations between the canon and the Latin American literary field or space. The interviews with all the writers and other actors involved are themselves, finally, a great contribution to the field.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Theorizing the Latin American Literature-WorldChapter 2: The McOndo Prologue, Controversy, and BeyondChapter 3: The McOndo Stories: Collective Readings and Individual NegotiationsChapter 4: The Trajectories of the McOndo authors: Mediating Structures, Illusios and Habitus in their Canonization or MarginalizationChapter 5: The canonization of the McOndo anthologyChapter 6: EpilogueBibliographyAbout the Author