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Highlights
On April 9, 2003, Jeffrey Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for best American fiction
Alfred Nobel’s will explicitly states the literature portion of his prize should be awarded “to the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction,” 3 dictating that his committee should select an author with a mind toward social growth
The Nobel website itself describes the numerous periods of its prize’s social focuses as, in order, “A lofty and sound idealism,” “A policy of neutrality,” “The great style,” “Universal Interest,” “The Pioneers,” “Attention to Unknown Masters,” and “The Literature of the Whole World.” 4 Each described era has an identifiable set of staunch social priorities, and the Nobel committee seems to be aware of this in a consciously near-playful way
Summary
Kaeli Hood is a senior at the University of Pittsburgh studying poetry and English literature. Especially among a slew of other prizes, can only increase the prestige of the institution: “The ambition of the newer prize, rather, is to situate itself in a relationship of marked, and possibly antagonistic, complementarity to the dominant one, establishing its own apparent necessity by reference to some failing or lack in its more esteemed predecessor.” 9 With this desire for cultural globalization comes the Nobel Committee’s recognition of Gabriel García Márquez’s heavily South American novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. The term Orientalism stands for a sort of focus on drawing attention to representations of “less fortunate” cultures (the Global South rather than just Eastern cultures) for personal gain These privileged, distinguished intellectuals composing the Nobel committee have controlled via recognition what’s been socially recognized as “work in an ideal direction” at any given time. How does this all relate to Middlesex and its Pulitzer?
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