Public pages : reading along the Latin American streetscape

Public pages : reading along the Latin American streetscape / Marcy Schwartz.

Public reading programs are flourishing in many Latin American cities in the new millennium. They defy the conception of reading as solitary and private by literally taking literature to the streets to create new communities of readers. From institutional and official to informal and spontaneous, th...

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Main Author: Schwartz, Marcy E., 1958- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Literacy programs > Latin America.
Literacy > Latin America.
Reading > Social aspects > Latin America.
Literature and society > Latin America.
City and town life > Latin America.
Public spaces > Latin America.
EDUCATION > Adult & Continuing Education.
EDUCATION > Non-Formal Education.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American
City and town life
Literacy
Literacy programs
Literature and society
Public spaces
Reading > Social aspects
Latin America
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : city reading: public space and cultural
  • Citizenship in Latin America
  • Campaigning for the capital : Bogotá and Buenos Aires as UNESCO world book capitals
  • Reading on wheels : stories of convivencia in Bogotá and Santiago
  • Cacerolazos y bibliotecas : solidarity, reading, and public space after the Argentine economic crisis (2001-2002)
  • Recycled reading and the cartonera collectives : publishing from the ground up
  • Books that bite : libraries of banned books in Argentina
  • Conclusion : stories at the intersection.

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