Ediciones cartoneras latinoamericanas en tiempos de transposición a digital

Authors

  • Adrián R. Vila Universidad de Buenos Aires

Abstract

This paper describes the history of the Latin American cardboard publishers-editoriales cartoneras (EC), their evolution and the interweaving of their own production process with practices related with the so called ‘social economy’ (SE), framed by the globalizing process of the publishing market (process represented as GILT + SE). The relationship between traditional publishing and cardboard publishing is analyzed, as well as their transformation to digital format. Moreover, it argues that the influence of the postcolonial turn can be appreciated in the material availability of cardboard, extended, this time, towards typographic forms, thus widening the scope of postcolonial action in the publishing field.

Keywords:

cardboard publishers, literary transposition, Latin American and Caribbean literature, digital ecosystem