Overview
Textuality is the condition in which a text is created, edited, archived, published, disseminated, and consumed. “Texts,” therefore, encompass a broad variety of artifacts: traditional printed matter such as grammar books and newspaper articles; phonographs; graphic novels; ephemera such as fashion illustrations, catalogs, and postcards; and even virtual databases and cataloging systems. Latin American Textualities is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at textual history, textual artifacts, and digital textualities across Latin America from the colonial era to the present. Editors Heather J. Allen and Andrew R. Reynolds gather a wide range of scholars to investigate the region’s textual scholarship. Contributors offer engaging examples of not just artifacts but also the contexts in which the texts are used. Topics include GuamÁn Poma’s library, the effect of sound recordings on writing in Argentina, Sudamericana Publishing House’s contribution to the Latin American literary boom, and Argentine science fiction. Latin American Textualities provides new paths to reading Latin American history, culture, and literatures. Contributors: Heather J. Allen Catalina Andrango-Walker Sam Carter Sara Castro-KlarÉn Edward King Rebecca Kosick Silvia Kurlat Ares Walther Maradiegue Clayton McCarl JosÉ Enrique Navarro Andrew R. Reynolds George Antony Thomas Zac Zimmer
Full Product Details
Author: Heather J. Allen ,
Andrew R. Reynolds
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780816555321
ISBN 10: 081655532
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 12 November 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""This innovative volume presents useful applications of distant reading, highlights the vast heterogeneity of Latin American textual production, and proves the importance of studying Latin America's textual history in order to better understand the region's history, society, and culture.""--Ignacio López-Calvo, Professor of Latin American Literature, University of California, Merced
Author Information
Heather J. Allen is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Mississippi. Her research and teaching focus on early modern Spanish American historiography and the cultural history of print. Andrew R. Reynolds is an associate professor of Spanish at West Texas A&M University. His research seeks to understand how textualities, images, and print impact cultural production and literary history in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish America. Reynolds is the author of The Spanish American CrÓnica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture: Modernismo’s Unstoppable Presses.
