A History of Book Publishing in Contemporary Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780367509910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 246 str.

Gustavo Sora

Opis

This book presents a cultural history of Latin America as seen through a symbolic good and a practice – the book, and the act of publication – two elements that have had an irrefutable power in shaping the modern world.

Spis treści

Part 1: Argentina  1. The book and publishing in Argentina. Books for everyone and the Hispanic American model  2. Translating the nation. Gregorio Weinberg and the rationalism of Argentinean past  Part 2: Mexico  3. Latin America as a civilizing meridian. Fondo de Cultura Económica and the Tierra Firme series  4. Publishing and politics. Cold War in Latin American culture in the sixties  Part 3: Brazil  5. Genesis of the national publishing market: a miracle?  6. The house and the enterprise. José Olympio and the evolution of publishing in Brazil  Part 4. Transnational Perspectives  7. The world as a fair. Publishing in(ter)dependencies at the Frankfurt Fair  8. The translation of social and human sciences books between France and Argentina as an unequal Exchange

O autorze

Gustavo Sorá has a PhD in Social Anthropology by the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He works as an Independent Researcher of the Argentine Scientific Research Council (CONICET) and as Tenured Professor at the Anthropological Department of the National University of Córdoba (Argentina).