The Book in Movement: Autonomous Politics and the Lettered City Underground (Illuminations)

Rabasa, Magalí

ISBN 10: 0822965879 / ISBN 13: 9780822965879

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Book in Movement: Autonomous Politics and the Lettered City Underground (Illuminations)
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822965879
• ISBN 13: 9780822965879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Over the past two decades, Latin America has seen an explosion of experiments with autonomy, as people across the continent express their refusal to be absorbed by the logic and order of neoliberalism. The autonomous movements of the twenty-first century are marked by an unprecedented degree of interconnection, through their use of digital tools and their insistence on the importance of producing knowledge about their practices through strategies of self-representation and grassroots theorization. The Book in Movement explores the reinvention of a specific form of media: the print book. Magalí Rabasa travels through the political and literary underground of cities in Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile to explore the ways that autonomous politics are enacted in the production and circulation of books.

About the Author

Magalí Rabasa is assistant professor of Hispanic studies at Lewis & Clark College.