{"product_id":"materialities-of-contemporary-latin-american-publishing","title":"Materialities of Contemporary Latin American Publishing","description":"Please join us on Wednesday, January 25th at 5.30 pm EST at Center for Book Arts for \u003cem\u003eMaterialities of Contemporary Latin American Publishing\u003c\/em\u003e, a program organized by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bibsocamer.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eThe Bibliographical Society of America\u003c\/a\u003e. A reception will follow the presentation and discussion.\r\n\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis panel examines how actors associated with publishing have reimagined books as material objects in contemporary Latin America. While often situated on the periphery of global publishing markets, the region is a center of innovation where a range of projects—independent, state-funded, radically anti-capitalist, or a mixture of these—have proposed alternative ways of making, reading, and circulating books. Our panel features three scholars who, through a series of case studies from Mexico, Argentina, and Bolivia, consider these projects and how they reflect in the materiality of books and digital platforms.\u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\u003cem\u003eThe Materiality of Print Books as a Site of Feminist Translation\u003c\/em\u003e. Magalí Rabasa\r\n\r\nWhat relations and networks become visible through close examination of the materiality of print books? How does attention to the marginal aspects of a book object generate different understandings of the actors engaged in the various kinds of labor necessary for its production? In this presentation, I explore these questions through the analysis of the materiality of a single book produced by a network of small alternative presses between Mexico and Argentina. Extending my earlier research on the production and circulation of organic books in autonomous publishing networks, here I turn my attention to the ways that feminist practices and concepts appear not just in the words on the pages of the book, but also in the book object itself. Specifically, I consider in what ways the materiality of the book can be understood as a site of multiple modes of translation– political, cultural, linguistic, economic, etc. – enacted as part of a broader feminist ethic and praxis of care.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSelling Crime by Subscription: W. M. Jackson and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eClub de Novelas Laberinto\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNora Benedict\u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWalter Montgomery Jackson (1863–1923) is most known for his involvement in producing the tenth edition of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEncyclopedia Britannica\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e as well as developing its famed eleventh edition. Some might also associate him with founding the Grolier Society through which he published the well-known children’s encyclopedia, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Book of Knowledge\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. However, few might link his name to a Latin American publishing empire. In this paper I detail Jackson’s involvement in the book industry in Latin America by focusing on one specific initiative: his adaptation of Harry Scherman’s Book of the Month Club. More specifically, I examine the physical features of books from his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eClub de Novelas Laberinto\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e as a way to show how he revolutionized business models in the Latin American book industry through the introduction of subscription publishing in countries including Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil.\u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eExperimental and independent publishing in Mexico. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePermanente obra negra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e as an example of a distributed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ebook\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e Élika Ortega\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eVivian Abenshushan’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePermanente obra negra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a unique piece of experimental literature and publishing launched in 2019 simultaneously by the Mexican independent publisher Sexto Piso and Medialabmx. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePermanente obra negra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePON\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eis a complex gathering of book objects: a trade edition book, a die-cut book, a card catalog, and a web application designed and developed by Dora Bartilotti and Leonardo Aranda. Characterized as an “ungovernable book,” in this presentation I examine how the volumes’ paratexts reveal the web of objects woven by Abenshushan as a whole and cohesive project, from its conceptualization and design through the various production processes. Upon that basis, I further explore the publishing conditions that made possible one of the most exciting books to come out in Mexico in the recent past. \u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePaloma Celis Carbajal\r\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCurator for Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Studies Collections\r\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNew York Public Library\u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrganizers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\r\n\u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCorinna Zeltsman\r\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAssistant Professor of History\r\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePrinceton University\u003c\/span\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAlex Hidalgo\r\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAssociate Professor of History\r\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTexas Christian University\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\r\n\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Center for Book Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45060034789532,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3861\/files\/a5b86b60-Stout_A-novela-assassina_cover.png?v=1751391431","url":"https:\/\/shop.centerforbookarts.org\/products\/materialities-of-contemporary-latin-american-publishing","provider":"Center for Book Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}