Taking Form, Making Worlds
Cartonera Publishers in Latin America
Seiten
2022
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2495-0 (ISBN)
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2495-0 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Histories: Tracing Trajectories of Resistance
2. Methods: Trans-Formal Research for Transformational Practice
3. Texts: Cartonera Literature in Action
4. Encounters: Existence as Resistance and Sites of Plurality
5. Workshops: Cardboard and the Material Sociality of Practice
6. Exhibitions: An Artistic Proposition to Reorder the Social
Conclusion
Works Cited
About the Authors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.05.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | one 16-page color insert, 49 b&w photos |
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 653 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-2495-X / 147732495X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-2495-0 / 9781477324950 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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