HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND WRITTEN CULTURE IN MEXICO. REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES.: East Volume
Synopsis
Driven by the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Bibliography of the Institute of Bibliographic Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (SIB-IIB-UNAM) and in close collaboration with institutions and academics from various regions of the country, in 2016 we initiated the project of regional colloquia, the first of which was the Regional Colloquium on the History and Studies of the Book in the East, held in Puebla, with the José María Lafragua Historical Library of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. In 2020, a sister meeting was added: the Regional Colloquium on the History and Studies of the Book in the West, which was co-organized by ciela Fraguas and the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes. Finally, in January 2021, the Regional Colloquium on the History and Studies of the Book in the North was held, co-organized with the Faculty of Arts of the Autonomous University of Baja California. The fertility of these meetings led us to gather the pieces of the puzzle to balance, complement and harmonize the almost exclusively centralist perspectives that have prevailed in the studies of written culture, books and publishing in Mexico. In this work, we offer a first panorama for the eastern part of the country.
The book presented here has ten chapters that cover three main themes or sections: manuscript production, of a historical and literary nature; libraries, their contents, organization and histories; and some aspects of the editing, printing and visual arts of the world of the book in eastern Mexico. The first essay, entitled "The Mixtec-Puebla tradition in the post-classical Oaxaca Valley. A reflection on the linguistic affiliation of its bearers," is by art historian Saeko Yanagisawa, a member of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Bibliography of the Institute of Bibliographic Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The lives of female characters are addressed in the chapter "Juana de Irazoqui and Catarina de San Juan: the spirituality of New Spain made visible by Father Alonso Ramos" by the researcher Robin Ann Rice Carlssohn, of the Autonomous Popular University of the State of Puebla. In the section of works dedicated to documentary collections is the section entitled "Franciscan libraries during the Viceroyalty. A brief overview through documents" by Father Francisco Morales Valerio, of the Franciscan Library of the University of the Americas Puebla. Within the section of libraries of the regular orders, the historian Edgar Iván Mondragón Aguilera, librarian of the José María Lafragua Historical Library of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, offers us the essay "The books of the Jesuits in the hands of the enlightened. Following the trail of the Jesuit heritage in the Library of the Real Colegio Carolino. Puebla (1767-1825)". The richness of some of the old and modern collections of the eastern region of the country is addressed in the chapter "A special library for an extraordinary region. The collections of the INAH Puebla Center library" authored by Irlanda Patricia Ochoa Ortiz and Jesús Joel Peña Espinosa. From the Puebla venues we move to those of Veracruz, with the joint work of Martín Páez Bistrain, Aristeo Marín Ávila and Fernando Hernández, attached to the Unit of Library and Information Services of the same university, which is titled "The documentary resources that make up the special collections of the Veracruz University". Co-authored by Marina Garone Gravier, a researcher at the Institute of Bibliographic Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and Mercedes Isabel Salomón Salazar, director of the José María Lafragua Historical Library of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, we can read "Women and printing in Puebla: two New Spanish cases". The scheme of the book continues with the contribution of the engraver and professor of the Faculty of Higher Studies Cuautitlán of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Héctor Raúl Morales Mejía, who addresses an aspect of the materiality of the book of the New Spanish period: the printing processes and in particular, the production of images with wood and metal engraving techniques. In the essay "Soul and body of the book in New Spain", Laurence Guilaine Le Bouhellec, professor at the University of the Americas, Puebla, is interested in certain relationships between books of precepts and pictorial works. The volume closes with the contribution of Viridiana Vera Gracia, an academic at the Autonomous Popular University of the State of Puebla and Anáhuac University Puebla who, based on a manuscript located in the Puebla Cathedral that covers the period 1831 to 1835, was able to reconstruct the functioning, the materials with which it was worked in its daily environment, as well as the circulation of printed materials in territories adjacent to the Puebla capital of a printing press.
The aim of this publishing initiative has not been to close and delimit the topics and problems that interest the written culture of the eastern part of the country, but rather to provide 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 Mexico.
Chapters
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By way of introductionRegional perspectives on the history of books and written culture in Mexico: a project under construction
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The Mixteca-Puebla tradition in the postclassical Oaxaca ValleyA reflection on the linguistic affiliation of its bearers
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Juana de Irazoqui and Catarina de San JuanNovo-Hispanic spirituality made visible by Father Alonso Ramos
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The Franciscan libraries during the Viceroyalty of the AmericasA brief view through the documents
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Jesuit books in the hands of the Enlightened OnesOn the trail of the Jesuit heritage in the Library of the Real Colegio Carolino. Puebla, 1767-1825
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A special library for an extraordinary regionThe collections of the INAH Puebla Center library
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The documentary resources that make up the special collections of the Universidad Veracruzana are as follows
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Women and printing in PueblaTwo novo-Hispanic cases
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Formal aspects of the maps of the Sumptuous Library of the Insigne Seminario Palafoxiano de la Puebla de los Ángeles of 1773 by Michael Zendejas and Josephus Nava
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Soul and body of the book in New Spain
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San Pedro: a hospital printing house in Puebla de los Ángeles, from 1831 to 1835
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