World Editors

Dynamics of Global Publishing and the Latin American Case between the Archive and the Digital Age

441 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The existence of World Literature depends on specific processes, institutions, and actors involved in the global circulation of literary works. The contributions of this volume aim to pay attention to these multiple material dimensions of Latin American 20th and 21st century literatures. From perspectives informed by materialism, sociology, book studies, and digital humanities, the articles of this volume analyze the role of publishing houses, politics of translation, mediators and gatekeepers, allowing insights into the processes that enable books to cross borders and to be transformed into globally circulating commodities. The book focusses both on material (re)sources of literary archives, key actors in literary and cultural markets, prizes and book fairs, as well as on recent dimension of the digital age. Statements of some of the leading representatives of the global publishing world complement these analyses of the operations of selection and aggregation of value to literary texts.

• Reihe: Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
• ISBN: 9783110713008
• Sprache: Englisch, Spanisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.12.2020
• Größe: 23 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Herausgegeben von: Gustavo Guerrero, Benjamin Loy, Gesine Müller