Revista de Estudios Sociales

rev. estud. soc. | eISSN 1900-5180 | ISSN 0123-885X

Popular Books in Colombia, 1930-1948: Editorial Strategies, Textual Forms and Intended Meanings

No. 30 (2008-08-01)
  • Renán Silva
https://doi.org/10.7440/res30.2008.02

Abstract

This article explores a group of editorial mechanisms through which editors shape books as a function of their readers ideals. It also examines the commonplace notion in the history of publishing and reading that “meaning is inscribed in its own material forms”: in the case of the book, though the visual, typography, the relationship between the white page and black letters, size, binding, etc. The article is based on a careful study of a collection of popular books, the Spanish Araluce collection, which circulated widely in both Colombian cities and the countryside during the first half of the twentieth century.

Keywords: popular books, reading, readers, popular classes, publishing industry, education

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