HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND WRITTEN CULTURE IN MEXICO. REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES: North Volume

Authors

Marina Garone Gravier (ed)
Coordinator
Martha Patricia Medellín Martínez (ed)
Coordinator

Keywords:

Book History, Pubishing History, Written Culture, Mexico, Northern Region of Mexico, Regional perspectives, Libraries, Calligraphy, Mexican Necropolitics, Books-art, Graphics, Graphic dicourse, Cartels, Manuscripts, Teguima, Ore

Synopsis

Driven from within the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Bibliology of the Institute of Bibliographic Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (SIB-IIB-UNAM) and in close collaboration with institutions and scholars from various regions of the country, in 2016 we initiated the project of regional colloquia, the first of which was the Coloquio Regional de Oriente de Historia y Estudios del Libro, held in Puebla, with the Biblioteca Histórica José María Lafragua of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. In 2020 a sister meeting was added: the Western Regional Colloquium on History and Book Studies, co-organized by CIELA Fraguas and the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes. Finally, in January 2021, the Northern Regional Colloquium on History and Book Studies was held, co-organized with the Faculty of Arts of the Autonomous University of Baja California. The fertility of these meetings prompted us to put together the pieces of the puzzle to balance, complement and harmonize the almost exclusively centralist perspectives that have prevailed in studies of written culture, books and publishing in Mexico. In this work we offer a first overview for the north of the country.

manifestations of northern written culture. The first essay is entitled “El Arte de la lengua Teguima y el Vocabulario de la lengua Ore: manuscripts in an extinct indigenous language of northern Mexico (MS 1494 BNM)” by Tesiu Rosas Xelhuantzi, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and member of the Seminario Interdisciplinario de Bibliología of the same institute.

From the documents themselves we move on to the study of the collections with the case offered by Tania Raigosa from the Institute of Historical Research and the AMC Library of the Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, entitled “Libraries and education in the 19th century. The case of the library of the lawyer Jose Fernando Ramirez”. It was precisely in these and other libraries, as well as in public life spaces in the northern part of the country during the 19th century, that the need for publishing companies that could meet the needs of bringing to the public light diverse discourses, ideas and local content was irreversibly increasing. This was the case of “El desarrollo de la imprenta en el noreste de México: La empresa editorial de los hermanos Lagrange en Monterrey, 1860-1874”, by Felipe Bárcenas García, member of the Seminario Interdisciplinario de Bibliología, Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas de la UNAM.

From Monterrey and the 19th century, we move in time and space to the other northern corner of the country. In his essay “Tijuana: crime and oblivion' Approximations to Mexican necropolitics from the novel by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite”, Oscar Hernandez Santiago puts us in tune with a publishing genre that unfortunately has gained a great boom in the panorama of national written culture.

In the wide and expanding universe of publishing genres, another one that has jumped and furrowed regional but has notable exponents and scholars in the north of the country is the one that amalgamates creative practices with bibliographic ones. In the essay “Libros-arte en el norte de México. Practices and productions in the State of Chihuahua”, Universitat Politècnica de València scholars Hortensia Mínguez García and Carles Méndez Llopis approach the material creation of this field focused mainly on the state of Chihuahua. Following in the line of relations between artistic expressions and written culture, Cynthia Raquel Mendoza Casanova, from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexicali, proposes the tracking and mapping of the uses of calligraphy in northern Mexico. Martha Patricia Medellín Martínez, an academic at the Faculty of Arts of the Autonomous University of Baja California, analyzes the participation and role played by women as active agents in the shaping of Baja California's cultural identity traits.

The last two essays deal with the uses of written culture devices for the recognition of ideological, identity, artistic and economic frameworks. In “Análisis del discurso gráfico de impresos históricos como recurso de estudio de identidades locales. Case study in four Tampico editions, 1890-1955” by Rebeca Isadora Lozano Castro and Cynthia Lizette Hurtado Espinosa, academics from the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas and the University of Guadalajara. The last chapter of the book is in charge of Susana Gutiérrez Portillo from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and is titled “Carteleras del noroeste: su oficio, contexto y medio de difusión (1960-2000)” (Northwest billboards: their trade, context and means of diffusion (1960-2000)). From a cultural history perspective, it is proposed that billboards are a cultural product and at the same time an artifact of ideological, artistic and artisanal value, whose representations evoke senses of the memory of Mexican culture and of the consumption practices of the Mexican population in a border context with the United States.

It has not been the intention of this editorial initiative to close and delimit the topics and problems that interest the written culture of northern Mexico, but rather to give space and listen to the voices that will gradually allow us to have a richer, more diverse and inclusive panorama of the history and studies of the book in the country.

Chapters

  • By way of introduction.
    Regional perspectives on the history of books and written culture in Mexico: a project under construction
    Marina Garone Gravier, Martha Patricia Medellín Martínez
  • The Art of the Teguima language and the Vocabulary of the Ore language.
    Manuscripts in an extinct language of northern Mexico (MS 1494 BNM)
    Tesiu Rosas Xelhuantzi
  • Libraries and education in Durango, XIX century.
    The case of lawyer José Fernando Ramírez's library
    Tani Celiset Raigosa Gómez
  • The consolidation of the publishing business in Monterrey, 1860-1874
    Felipe Bárcenas García
  • Tijuana: crime and oblivion.
    Approximations to Mexican necropolitics from the novel by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite
    Óscar Hernández Santiago
  • Book-art in northern Mexico.
    Practices and productions in the state of Chihuahua
    Hortensia Mínguez García, Carles Méndez Llopis
  • Calligraphy in Northern Mexico
    Cynthia Raquel Mendoza Casanova
  • Women creators in Baja California graphics
    Martha Patricia Medellín Martínez
  • Analysis of the graphic discourse of historical printed matter as a resource for the study of local identities.
    A case study of four Tampico editions, 1890-1955
    Rebeca Isadora Lozano Castro, Cynthia Lizette Hurtado Espinosa
  • Desert billboards: trade, object and media in Mexicali, Baja California (1960-1999)
    Susana Gutiérrez Portillo

Author Biographies

Marina Garone Gravier, Coordinator

PhD in Art History (UNAM). Since 2009 she is a permanent tenured researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas (UNAM), where she founded in 2012, and since then coordinates, the Seminario Interdisciplinario de Bibliología (SIB-IIB-UNAM). Since 2014 she is a corresponding researcher at the Instituto de Arte Americano e Investigaciones Estéticas (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and in 2017 she founded, and since then co-coordinates, the Red Latinoamericana de Cultura Gráfica. She is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (level 3) and delegate for Mexico of Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). She has conducted research stays in numerous libraries such as the National Libraries of Argentina, Chile, Spain and the United Kingdom, and in collections such as the John Carter Brown Library, Newberry Library, Nettie Lee Benson (University of Austin) and Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, among others. Her lines of research and teaching revolve around the history of books, publishing, typography and visual culture in Mexico and Latin America; print culture in indigenous languages, and the relationship between design and gender. She is the author, co-author, compiler and editor of more than a dozen books.

 
Martha Patricia Medellín Martínez, Coordinator

Originally from Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico; PhD in Arts and Design from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Master and Bachelor in Visual Arts from the same institution. Feminist. She is a full time professor-researcher of the Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Arts in Mexicali, at the Autonomous University of Baja California. She has the desirable profile PRODEP, and is a candidate for national researcher (2021-2024) by the National System of Researchers (SNI). She founded, managed, directed and participated in the Foro Mujeres en el Arte (2017) and the I and II Coloquio de Arte y Género (2018 and 2019). She currently directs the Art and Gender Archive of Baja California in liaison with the Secretary of Culture of Baja California.

Tesiu Rosas Xelhuantzi

D. in History from UNAM (2017), specializing in the field of Ancient Societies. D. in Latin American Studies from UNAM (2008), specializing in the field of Latin American Culture. Full-time professor in the undergraduate degree in History at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of unam from 2015 to 2020. His current line of research focuses on novo-Hispanic manuscripts in indigenous languages.

Tani Celiset Raigosa Gómez

Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas of the Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango and professor of the Master's program in Sciences and Humanities at the same university. D. from the University of Seville, in the program History, Literature and Power. Interethnic and cultural processes in America; Master in Humanities, History area, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas “Francisco García Salinas”; and Bachelor in Law, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango. Her areas of study are related to sociocultural history and social history of law and institutions. She has participated in several collective and individual publications and in different congresses related to her topics of study. Among his latest publications are: “El Instituto Juárez durante el Porfiriato” in Una mirada sobre la educación superior en Durango (1634-2016), 160 Aniversario del Colegio Civil, IIH/UJED (2016); “El poder judicial en Durango, 1910- 1924”, in Historia del IIH/UJED magazine (2019); “El crimen en la prensa de Durango, 1880-1910. Two outstanding causes” in Historia IIH/UJED journal (2021); and Government and criminal justice in Durango, 1750-1824, IIH/UJED and ICED (2021).

Felipe Bárcenas García

Historian from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León; Master in Modern and Contemporary History (Mora Institute) and PhD in History (Autonomous Metropolitan University). He is a professor at the Escuela Nacional de Lenguas Lingüística y Traducción of the UNAM and a candidate for national researcher. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at IIB-UNAM. Winner of the FINANCIARTE 2011 contest, organized by the Council for Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León. He won the Best Undergraduate Thesis Award 2012 from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, in the area of Education and Humanities and the XII Research Award in History and Cultural Heritage Israel Cavazos Garza 2016. Author of the book Imprenta, economía y cultura en el noreste de México: la empresa editorial de Desiderio Lagrange, 1874-1887 (CONARTE, 2017) and several articles related to the publishing field of the Mexican northeast in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His lines of research are the history of books, publishing and the press.

Óscar Hernández Santiago

He holds a bachelor's and master's degree in law and a doctorate in history from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas of the same institution, where he carried out research on the circulation of legal books in New Spain. Research interests: legal literature, Indian law and constitutional history.

Hortensia Mínguez García

A specialist in engraving and printing systems, she holds a Diploma in Advanced Studies and a Diploma in Design, as well as a PhD Cum Laude in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain and a postdoctoral degree from the University of Barcelona. In 2007 she began her teaching career as a Full Time Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, within the Design Department of the Institute of Architecture, Design and Art. She is a member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico; SNI-1, since 2008, and leader of the Consolidated Academic Body “Contemporary Graphics”. He has published in different publishing houses and magazines of international prestige in England, Peru, Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Taiwan; especially around the discourses and creative processes of graphics after postmodernity, the analysis of the creative and discursive processes immanent to the artistic genre of the Book-Art and the study of the idea of the multiple as an artistic strategy.

Carles Méndez Llopis

D. in Fine Arts from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) and specialist in Engraving and Printing Systems. He is currently a member of the Contemporary Graphics research group, an academic body attached to the Department of Design of the Institute of Architecture, Design and Art at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, where he has worked as a professor-researcher since 2007. His performance ranges from the creation of graphic-pictorial work and research on the current state of graphic art, and cultural management of national and international research-creation projects. He has participated and collaborated with several universities, from exhibition projects and cultural exchange, and conducted various research projects related to multiple art, artist's books and visual poetry. He has published several articles and book chapters on the subject, and as an artist his works have been exhibited in several countries, such as Spain, Mexico, Italy, Poland, Kenya, Japan, Taiwan and Venezuela, and has been part of more than 40 exhibitions in museums, universities and galleries.

Cynthia Raquel Mendoza Casanova

Ordinary Academic Technician of Subject type D in the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexicali. He finished his studies in Graphic Design at the Universidad del Valle de Atemajac campus Guadalajara (1997), he obtained his degree in 1999 with the thesis document: “Design of educational material for autistic children”. She worked for eight years at El Debate newspaper in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, and at the same time she worked as a university professor. In March 2010 she began working for the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in the Faculty of Architecture and Design, where she currently works as a professor of Typography I, Calligraphy and Lettering, and Design Methodology II. In the period of 2013-2015 she studied the Master of Arts, Faculty of Arts, presenting thesis project entitled: “Symbiosis, Integration of artistic drawing and western calligraphy through the use of its lines.” D. in Architecture, Urbanism and Design at the Faculty of Architecture and Design, with the research project: “Methodological guidelines for the design of glosses in Mexican Sign Language. Glossary of basic concepts of graphic design”; collaborates in an international research project University of California Riverside-Universidad Autónoma de Baja California supported by the MEXUS-CONACyT scholarship.

Rebeca Isadora Lozano Castro

Graduated in Graphic Design from Universidad del Noreste, Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico (1993). She specialized with a diploma in Advertising Graphic Creativity from Centro Avanzado de Comunicaciones, A.C. Mexico (1994); she obtained a master's degree in Graphic Arts from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain (2004). She holds a PhD in Design from the University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2018). She is currently a candidate SNI 2021-2024 and PERFIL-PRODEP 2020-2023, and belongs to the Academic Body of Art, Theory and Conservation of Heritage (UAT-CA-145). She was a PRODEP scholar, in the Program for Professional Teaching Development, on two occasions, 2002-2003 and 2015-2018; professor, tutor, researcher; she is part of the editorial committee of the Zincography, Communication and Design Magazine (of the UdeG) and RECIT (of the UABC). She was coordinator of the Graphic Design career at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, UAT, where she currently works. She was a member of the technical committee for the generation of the EGEL-DISEG, General Exit Examination of the Graphic Design career in the CENEVAL at national level. He has participated in national and international congresses; he has served as speaker-expositor, technical responsible for research projects; he has quality publications and articles on design education, sociovisual hegemony within the research line of crossings between culture and design, and design history.

Cynthia Lizette Hurtado Espinosa

Degree in Design for Graphic Communication from the University of Guadalajara, with a master's degree and doctorate in Teaching Methodology from the Mexican Institute of Pedagogical Studies and Chemical Technologist in Pharmaceuticals from the Center for Industrial Technical Education. She was coordinator of the bachelor's degree in design for graphic communication at the University of Guadalajara (2007-2013) and research and postgraduate coordinator (2013-2016) at the same university. She is currently the editor of the journal Zincografía and is responsible for the academic body 790 focused on Communication Processes and Higher Education. Member of the Laboratory in Typography and Editorial Design and the In-Cities Institute, as well as member of the academic board of the Master in Information Design and Digital Communication at the University of Guadalajara. She has PRODEP profile and is a member of the National System of Researchers (2018-2020). She has focused on conducting research in Design and education.

Susana Gutiérrez Portillo

Professor-researcher at the Institute of Cultural Research-Museum of the Autonomous University of Baja California. D. in Social Sciences with specialization in cultural history from the Centro Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS-Occidente) and graduated from the International Graduate School “Entre Espacios” of the Free University of Berlin. Master's Degree in Sociocultural Studies and Bachelor's Degree in Communication Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. Member of the National System of Researchers Level 1. Her research is inserted in the lines of: society, memory and culture; cultural history and gender in the twentieth century; and gender representations in education and science. Among her latest publications are: Gutiérrez-Portillo, S. (2019). Discourse analysis frameworks to study gender in the field of engineering. Perfiles de La Cultura Cubana, 25, 112-136; and Gutiérrez-Portillo, S., and Ortoll, S. (coords.) (2019). Viajeros del tiempo: Seis autores y su quehacer historiográfico (UAM-Ediciones del Lirio). Gutiérrez-Portillo, S (2022). La Noche de Locas: Ritual Process and Gender Order In A Masculinized Space, Studies on Contemporary Cultures, XXVII, 54 155-78. Gutierrez-Portillo (2021) From girls to engineers: gender and discourse at the University (UABC - Annual Selection for the University Book) In press.

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