Tournament Rituals, Category Dynamics, and Field Configuration: The Case of the Booker Prize
研究了布克奖这类行业颁奖仪式如何通过推崇后殖民小说这一独特类别，塑造当代英语文学场域的结构与动态。
abstract In this article we theorize the ways in which tournament rituals, in the form of prominent industry award ceremonies, configure organizational fields. We review field theory to distil four criteria to which field‐configuring mechanisms should conform. We undertake an archival study of the Booker Prize for Fiction to explore how this tournament ritual has configured the field of contemporary English‐language literature by championing the distinctive category of post‐colonial fiction.