Juan Carlos Gaona Poveda D. in History from the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Mérida, México. He holds a master's degree in History from the Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia; a theology degree from the Fundación Universitaria Bautista, Cali, Colombia, and a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Pedagogy from the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Bogotá. He has taught in the History program of the Universidad del Valle, the Theology program of the Fundación Universitaria Bautista and the Social Work program of the Fundación Universitaria Claretiana in Cali, Colombia. Author of the book Disidencia religiosa y conflicto sociocultural. Tactics and evangelical strategies of struggle for the modeling of the public sphere in Colombia (1912-1957). He is currently finishing his doctoral thesis: "Una historia del libro evangélico en Hispanoamérica. The city of Mexico and the Río de la Plata, century xx”.

Reseñas críticas

A History of Book Publishing in Contemporary Latin America

Gustavo Sorá, 2021 Routledge Taylor/ Francis Group, New York, 225 pp.

Books in 20th Century Latin America

  • Juan Carlos Gaona Poveda

The history of books and publishing is a historiographical current in the process of consolidation, in which the development of print capitalism is often linked to the emergence of imagined national communities, in a process that dates back to the nineteenth century (Anderson, 2006). Hence, the study of print culture has developed within the framework of a methodological nationalism that must be overcome (Bourdieu, 2002). In Ibero-America we have works for countries such as Spain (Martínez, 2015), Argentina (De Diego, 2014) and Mexico (Bello and Garone, 2020). However, the phenomena of production, circulation and reception of ideas through printed media overflow the frameworks of the nation-state, as pointed out by Gustavo Sorá (2003; 2017), Antonio Largo and Nicanor Gómez (2006) and Alejandro Dujovne (2014). It is a transnational approach taken up on a Latin American scale in the new book by Argentine anthropologist Gustavo Sorá, A History of Book Publishing in Contemporary Latin America, published in February 2021.