Books, periodicals, and ephemera papers in the Ibero-Atlantic space

Abstract

Far from being established in a natural, or a-temporal way, Atlantic history presupposes precise circumscriptions, socially and politically configured. In this sense, this issue seeks to contribute to the perception of what is defined as the Ibero-Atlantic space, focusing on a specific aspect: the circulation of written culture, expressed in the movements made by books, periodicals, pamphlets and other sets of papers. Our aim is to understand the multiple processes of literate circulation over time. We also intend to think about long-term processes in order to grasp the changes in the configurations of the Ibero-Atlantic world and their persistence. The issue thus tries to demonstrate how each space of creation and appropriation of texts put into circulation is a concrete product of contingent insertion in networks of diverse complexity and density, through which a flow of manuscript, printed objects and ideas materializes, a movement in which systems of links are established between several regions of the Ibero-Atlantic world.