A History of Book Publishing in Contemporary Latin America

GUSTAVO SORÁ

Routledge

Lugar: Nueva York - Londres; Año: 2021 p. 265

978-0-203-34154-4

This book presents a cultural history of Latin America as seen througha symbolic good and a practice ? the book, and the act of publication ?two elements that have had an irrefutable power in shaping the modernworld.The volume combines multiple theoretical approaches and empiricallandscapes with the aim to comprehend how Latin American publishersbecame the protagonists of a symbolic unification of their continent fromthe 1930s through the 1970s. The Latin American focus responds to acentral point in its history: the effective interdependence of the nationalcultures of the continent. Americanism, until the 1950s, or Latin Americanism,from the onset of the Cold War, were moral frameworks thatguided publishers? thinking and actions and had concrete effects on theprocess of regional integration. The illustration of how Latin Americanpublishing markets were articulated opens up broader and comparativequestions regarding the ways in which the ideas embodied in books alsosought to unify other cultural areas.The intersection of cultural, political, and economic themes, as well asthe style of writing, makes this book an interest to a wide reading publicwith historical and sociological sensitivity and global cultural curiosity.