The quiet editor: Ivan Vladislavić and South African cultural production
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Graham, J. 2017. The quiet editor: Ivan Vladislavić and South African cultural production. Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 52 (1), pp. 56-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989416675017
Type | Article |
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Title | The quiet editor: Ivan Vladislavić and South African cultural production |
Authors | Graham, J. |
Abstract | This article examines the literary and sociological significance of Ivan Vladislavić’s "double life” (Lahire, 2010: n.p.) as both editor and writer. With reference to a number of his editorial roles as well as the joint projects he has worked on with writers and visual artists, the article considers how Vladislavić’s work with others spreads symbolic value. Described by one of his clients as the “quiet editor”, Vladislavić can be read as a new kind of author; what he terms “creative editing” (Steyn, 2012: n.p.) as a new kind of writing, through which more traditional models of authorship and literary production are thrown into question — less Bourdieu’s (1984) “field of literary production” or Casanova’s (2004: 82) “world literary space”, red in tooth and claw, amd more Howard Becker’s “art world”: a convivial “network of cooperating people, all of whose work is essential to the final outcome” (1982: 25). |
Keywords | artworld; cultural production; South African literature; South African visual culture; Ivan Vladislavić |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Journal | Journal of Commonwealth Literature |
ISSN | 0021-9894 |
Electronic | 1741-6442 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 25 Oct 2016 |
01 Mar 2017 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 21 Oct 2016 |
Accepted | 20 Sep 2016 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | File Access Level Open |
Copyright Statement | James Graham, The Quiet Editor: Ivan Vladislavić and South African cultural production, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (Vol 52, Issue 1) pp. 56 - 69. Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989416675017 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989416675017 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:000397221300005 |
Language | English |
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