Getting From Buenos Aires to Mexico City Without Passing Through Madrid: Latin American Publishing Topographies

LEVITT, PEGGY; SAFERSTEIN, EZEQUIEL ANDRÉS

JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES

CARFAX PUBLISHING LTD.

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2022 vol. 31

1356-9325

Why do some literary works gain recognition only where they are written while others travel around the globe? We answer these questions through a case study of Argentina where there are two main pathways to international recognition. The first involves a powerful, well-established route that passes through Spain to get to other parts of Latin America. A second path scales up by de-centering Spain as the capital of Spanish language publishing and creating alternative, independent trajectories of circulation through partnerships with independent publishers throughout Latin America and beyond. These challenge traditional power brokers but also run the high risk of recolonisation by them, thereby calling into question how long it is possible to remain independent.