Taking Form, Making Worlds: Cartonera Publishers in Latin America - Couverture rigide

Bell, Lucy; Flynn, Alex Ungprateeb; O'Hare, Patrick

 
9781477324950: Taking Form, Making Worlds: Cartonera Publishers in Latin America
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 147732495X ISBN 13 : 9781477324950
Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2022

Synopsis

2023 LASA Visual Culture Studies Section Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

The first comprehensive study of cartonera, a vibrant publishing phenomenon born in Latin America.

A publishing phenomenon and artistic project, cartonera was born in the wake of Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis. Infused with a rebellious spirit, it has exploded in popularity, with hundreds of publishers across Latin America and Europe making colorful, low-cost books out of cardboard salvaged from the street. Taking Form, Making Worlds is the first comprehensive study of cartonera. Drawing on interdisciplinary research conducted across Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, the authors show how this hands-on practice has fostered a politically engaged network of writers, artists, and readers. More than a social movement, cartonera uses texts, workshops, encounters, and exhibitions to foster community and engagement through open-ended forms that are at once artistic and social. For various groups including waste-pickers, Indigenous communities, rural children, and imprisoned women, cartonera provides a platform for unique stories and sparks collaborations that bring the walls of the “lettered city” tumbling down. In contexts of stigma and exclusion, cartonera collectives give form to a decolonial aesthetics of resistance, making possible a space of creative experimentation through which plural worlds can be brought to life.

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À propos de l?auteur

Lucy Bell is a senior lecturer in Spanish and translation studies at the University of Surrey.

Alexander Ungprateeb Flynn is an assistant professor of anthropology and contemporary art at UCLA.

Patrick O’Hare is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of St. Andrews.

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Éditeur
University of Texas Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
147732495X
ISBN 13 
9781477324950
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
360
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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