HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND WRITTEN CULTURE IN MEXICO. REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES: North Volume
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, OreSynopsis
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
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By way of introduction.Regional perspectives on the history of books and written culture in Mexico: a project under construction
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The Art of the Teguima language and the Vocabulary of the Ore language.Manuscripts in an extinct language of northern Mexico (MS 1494 BNM)
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Libraries and education in Durango, XIX century.The case of lawyer José Fernando Ramírez's library
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The consolidation of the publishing business in Monterrey, 1860-1874
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Tijuana: crime and oblivion.Approximations to Mexican necropolitics from the novel by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite
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Book-art in northern Mexico.Practices and productions in the state of Chihuahua
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Calligraphy in Northern Mexico
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Women creators in Baja California graphics
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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
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Desert billboards: trade, object and media in Mexicali, Baja California (1960-1999)
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