Latin American Textualities

Heather J. Allen is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Mississippi. Her research and teaching focus on early modern Spanish American historiography and the cultural history of print.Andrew R. Reynolds is an associate professor of Spanish at West Texas A&M University. His research seeks to understand how textualities, images, and print impact cultural production and literary history in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish America. Reynolds is the author of The Spanish American CrÓnica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture: Modernismo’s Unstoppable Presses.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Textuality in Latin AmericaHeather J. Allen and Andrew R. ReynoldsPART I. READING HISTORY THROUGH TEXTUALITY1. Writing Orality: Turning Quechua into a Language of Religious ConversionCatalina Andrango-Walker2. A Witch in the City: History and Textuality in the Nineteenth-Century AndesWalther Maradiegue3. The Sudamericana Publishing House: Catalogs as Objects of StudyJosÉ Enrique NavarroPART II. TEXTUAL ARTIFACTS AND MATERIALITIES4. Guaman Poma’s Library: Costume Books and the Illustration of an Indigenous ManuscriptGeorge Antony Thomas5. Rioplatense Sound, Text, and Transmission in the Early Era of Sonic ReproducibilitySam Carter6. The Postcard Poetics of Nicanor Parra’s ArtefactosRebecca Kosick7. Reading Images: Art, Aesthetics, and the Imagery of the Future in Argentine Science FictionSilvia Kurlat AresPART III. DIGITAL TEXTUALITIES, MEDIA, AND EDITING8. Discourse or Data? Theorizing the Electronic Edition of Antonio de LeÓn Pinelo’s 1629 Bibliography of the IndiesClayton McCarl9. Do Borges’s Librarians Have Bodies?Zac Zimmer10. Between Street and Book: Textual Assemblages and Urban Topologies in Graphic Fiction from BrazilEdward KingAfterword: Texts, Coding, and TranslationSara Castro-KlarÉnContributorsIndex

“This innovative volume presents useful applications of distant reading, highlights the vast heterogeneity of Latin American textual production, and proves the importance of studying Latin America’s textual history in order to better understand the region’s history, society, and culture.” - Ignacio LÓpez-Calvo, Professor of Latin American Literature, University of California, Merced