Abstract
‘Macbeth of Kelantan’ is an accompanying piece to ‘How to Read Shakespeare in the Post-Atomic Age’, a paper that I presented at the 2018 AAWP conference. Both short stories use Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural capital theory as a point of departure to untangle the complexities of how individuals assign different values to various reading practices in situated contexts. Both stories draw on key themes that emerged from a small qualitative study which examined the cultural capital of reading. While ‘How to Read’ examines the value assigned to reading canonical literature across generations, ‘Macbeth of Kelantan’ explores how the value of reading practices are negotiated across fields.
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