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1 | Hi there! This reading list highlights work about the history of the book that centers (and/or is authored by) people who have historically been excluded from the field. The list includes books, articles, and digital projects about all geographies and time periods, organized by region and date. For a more comprehensive bibliography of women in BH, see http://www.womensbookhistory.org/. If you contribute, consider adding your name to the "contributors" page. The list is moderated by @hralperta. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Author | Title | time period [choose from drop-down list | region [no controlled vocab][continent, region, country] | y/n this text centers book history outside of europe & the U.S. | y/n this study centers people of color | y/n this study centers queer and/or gender queer people | y/n this study centers disabled people | y/n this study centers women | notes | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Watts, Richard | c20 | Africa, France, Caribbean | yes | yes | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||
4 | Terri Ochiagha | A Short History of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (Nov. 2018) | c20 | Africa, Nigeria | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Ballantyne, Tony, Lachy Paterson, and Angela Wanhalla (editors) | Indigenous Textual Cultures | other | Africa, North America, Oceania | yes | yes | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | Elizabeth Le Roux | ‘Miriam Tlali and Ravan Press: Politics and Power in Literary Publishing during the Apartheid Period’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 44(3): 431–446. Free eprint available at https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/e3c35ac49W79v2WN2vH9/full | c20 | Africa, South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Elizabeth Le Roux | A social history of the university presses in apartheid South Africa: Between complicity and resistance | c20 | Africa, South Africa | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Carmen Arellano Hoffmann, Peer Schmidt, Xavier Noguez | Libros y escritura de tradición indígena: ensayos sobre los códices prehispánicos y coloniales de México | precolonial | America, Mesoamerica & New Spain | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Carlos Abraham | La Editorial Tor: Medio siglo de libros populares | c20 | Americas, Argentina | yes | no | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
10 | Craig Eppelin | Late Book Culture in Argentina | contemporary | Americas, Argentina | yes | no | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
11 | Damian Bil and Lucas Poy Pineiro | Trabajo no libre en la Penitenciaria Nacional de Buenos Aires: El caso de los talleres graficos, 1877-1917 | c19 | Americas, Argentina | yes | no | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
12 | Richard Newman | Black Access: A Bibliography of Afro-American Bibliographies | c19 | Americas, Canada | no | yes | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
13 | Cristina Herrera and Paula Sanmartín | Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text: Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing | c20 | Americas, Caribbean | yes | yes | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Gail Low | "Cultures of Print in the Caribbean" in The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean Since 1950 (ed. Simon Gikandi, 2016) | other | Americas, Caribbean | |||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Jessica Gordon-Burroughs | Straight Pins, Gauze, and Linotypes: The Cuban Post-Soviet Artists’ Book | c20 | Americas, Caribbean | yes | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569325.2017.1292223 | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Julie Chun Kim | colonial | Americas, Caribbean | yes | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Chelsea Stieber | The Haitian Literary Magazine in Francophone Postcolonial Literary and Cultural Production | c19 | Americas, Caribbean, Haiti | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
18 | David Tavárez | Indigenous Intellectuals in Colonial Latin America | colonial | Americas, Hispanic America | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Carlos Aguirre & Ricardo Salvatore, eds. | Bibliotecas y cultura letrada en america latina: siglos xix y xx | c20 | Americas, Latin America | yes | no | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
20 | Magali Rabasa | The Book in Movement: Autonomous Politics and the Lettered City Underground | c21 | Americas, Latin America | yes | yes | Will be published April 2019 (University of Pittsburgh Press) | ||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Ricardo D. Salvatore | Library accumulation and the emergence of Latin American studies | c20 | Americas, Latin America | yes | no | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
22 | Carmen Castañeda (ed) | Del autor al lector | other | Americas, Latin America | yes | It has essays on colonial and modern readers | |||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Jose Rabasa | Tell Me The Story of How I Conquered You: Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World | colonial | Americas, Mexico | yes | yes | no | no | yes | ||||||||||||||||||
24 | Jorge Gutiérrez Reyna (ed) | Óyeme con los ojos: poesia visual novohispana | c17 | Americas, Mexico | yes | no | no | no | no | Reprints of visual poetry from colonial Mexico; accompanied by a commentary text. | |||||||||||||||||
25 | Suarez Rivera, Manuel | Dinastía de tinta y papel. Los Zúñiga y Ontiveros en la cultura novohispana (1756-1825) | c18 | Americas, Mexico | yes | no | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
26 | Asunción Lavrin, Rosalva Loreto López (eds.) | Monjas y beatas: la escritura femenina en la espiritualidad barroca novohispana: siglos XVII y XVIII | colonial | Americas, New Spain | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Olivia Moreno Gamboa | La librería de Luis Mariano de Ibarra. Ciudad de México. 1730-1750 | c18 | Americas, New Spain | yes | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
28 | José Abel Ramos Soriano | Los delincuentes de papel: Inquisición y libros en la Nueva España (1571-1820) | colonial | Americas, New Spain | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Albert Palacios | Preventing “Heresy”: Censorship and Privilege in Mexican Publishing, 1590–1612 | c16 | Americas, New Spain | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Carmen Castañeda | colonial | Americas, new spain | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Carmen Castañeda | Imprenta, impresores y periódicos en Guadalajara, 1793-1811 | colonial | Americas, new spain | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Dana Liebsohn | Script and Glyph | c16 | Americas, New Spain | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Emma Rivas Mata | colonial | Americas, new spain | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Hortensia Calvo | “The Politics of Print: The Historiography of the Book in Early Spanish America" | colonial | Americas, new spain | yes | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||
35 | Magdalena Chocano Mena | Imprenta e impresores de Nueva España, 1539-1700: Límites económicos y Condiciones Políticas en la tipografía colonial americana | colonial | Americas, new spain | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Marina Garone Gravier | Fuentes para el estudio de la tipografía, la imprenta y el libro antiguo mexicano (1539-1821) | colonial | Americas, new spain | yes | no answer | |||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Idalia García Aguilar, Pedro Rueda Ramírez (eds) | Leer en tiempos de la Colonia: imprenta, bibliotecas y lectores en la Nueva España | colonial | Americas, new spain | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Víctor J. Cid | La Gazeta de México y la difusión de la cultura impresa durante el siglo XVIII [database] | c18 | Americas, new spain | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | José Toribio Medina | La imprenta en México, 1539-1821. | colonial | Americas, new spain | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra | How to Write the History of the New World | colonial | Americas, New Spain | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Laura Suárez de la Torre (ed) | Estantes para los impresos : espacios para los lectores: siglos XVIII-XIX | other | Americas, New Spain and Mexico | yes | c18 - c19, contaiins various essays on Mexican book history | |||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Carlos Aguirre | La carcel y la ciudad letrada: hacia una historia cultural de la prision en el Peru del siglo veinte | c20 | Americas, Peru | yes | no | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
43 | Carlos Aguirre | El proyecto editorial Populibros Peruanos (1963-1965) | c20 | Americas, Peru | yes | no | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
44 | Pedro Guibovich Perez | The Printing Press in Colonial Peru: Production Process and Literary Categories in Lima, 1584-1699 | c17 | Americas, Peru | yes | no | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
45 | Ricardo D. Salvatore | Progress and Backwardness in Book Accumulation: Bancroft, Basadre, and Their Libraries | c20 | Americas, Peru | yes | no | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
46 | Matthew Hill | The colonial book trade in the phillippines | colonial | Americas, Phillippines | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Bilbija, Ksenija; Celis Carbajal, Paloma, editors | Akademia Cartonera: A Primer of Latin American Cartonera Publishers | c21 | Americas, South America, Argentina | yes | Text available online here. | |||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Brigitte Fielder and Jonathan Senchyne eds. | Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print | other | Americas, U.S. | no | yes | no | no | yes | ||||||||||||||||||
49 | Spencer D. C. Keralis | Pictures of Charlotte: The Illustrated Charlotte Temple and Her Readers | c19 | Americas, UK | no | no | no | no | yes | ||||||||||||||||||
50 | Justin Gifford | Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing | c20 | Americas, United States | no | yes | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
51 | Kinohi Nishikawa | Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground | c20 | Americas, United States | no | yes | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
52 | Kathryn Lenore Steele | Navigating Interpretive Authorities: Women Readers and Reading Models in the Eighteenth Century (PhD thesis) | c18 | Americas, United States | no | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Stein | Early African American Print Culture | other | Americas, United States | no | yes | no | no | yes | Edited collection. For context, see also Gabrielle Foreman, "A Riff, A Call, and A Response" in Legacy 30.2 (2013). | |||||||||||||||||
54 | Maria E. Gonzalez Marinas | The Simon S. Lucuix Rio de la Plata Library | c20 | Americas, Uruguay | yes | no | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
55 | Antonio T Bly | “Reed through the Bybell” Slave Education in Early Virginia | Americas, US | no | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Arthur Schomberg | The negro digs up his past | c19 | Americas, US | yes | yes | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
57 | Barbara Krah | “Tracking Frado: The Challenge of Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig to Nineteenth-Century Conventions of Writing Womanhood.” Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 49, no. 4, 2004, pp. 465–82. EBSCOhost, | c19 | Americas, US | no | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Caroline Goeser | Picturing the New Negro: Harlem Renaissance Print Culture and Modern Black Identity | c20 | Americas, US | no | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Christopher N. Phillips | Versifying African Methodism; or, What Did Early African-American Hymnbooks Do? | c19 | Americas, US | no | yes | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
60 | Dorothy Porter | Fifty Years of Collecting | c20 | Americas, US | no | yes | no | no | yes | ||||||||||||||||||
61 | E. Haven Hawley | Mechanical Fingerprints and the Technology of Nieteenth-Century American Erotica (University of Toronto Quarterly, Fall 2004, 73(4):1036-1051) | c19 | Americas, US | no | no | no | no | yes | Low wages for women's work in binding were critical to technological change in c19 US printing industry. Artifact analysis suggests contradictions in social expectations for women and their work roles. | |||||||||||||||||
62 | Elinor Des Verney Sinnette, W. Paul Coates, and Thomas C. Battle, eds | Black Bibliophiles and Collectors: Preservers of Black History.. Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1990. | Americas, US | no | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Eric Gardner | Black Print Unbound | c19 | Americas, US | no | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Frances Smith Foster | “A Narrative of the Interesting Origins and (Somewhat) Surprising Developments of African-American Print Culture.” | C19–C20 | Americas, US | no | yes | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||
65 | Jasmine Nichole Cobb | "“Forget Me Not”: Free Black Women and Sentimentality." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S., vol. 40 no. 3, 2015, pp. 28-46. Project MUSE, muse.jhu.edu/article/593051. | c19 | Americas, US | no | yes | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Jean Lee Cole | "A New Digital Divide? Recovery Editing in the Age of Digitization" (Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 2016) | contemporary | Americas, US | no | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Jesse Erickson | Revolution in Black: Black American Alternative Press and Popular Culture at the End of the Twentieth Century," Publishing History | c20 | Americas, US | no | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
68 | kevin young | BUNK: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News | contemporary | Americas, US | no | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Leon Jackson | The Talking Book and the Talking Book Historian: African American Cultures of Print—The State of the Discipline. | c19 | Americas, US | no | yes | no | no | yes | ||||||||||||||||||
70 | Matt Cohen and Jeffrey Glover, eds | Colonial Mediascapes | colonial | Americas, US | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Michael Chaney | The Concatenate Poetics of Slavery and the Articulate Material of Dave the Potter | c19 | Americas, US | no | yes | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
72 | Phillip Round | Removable Type | colonial | Americas, US | no | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Raul coronado | The World Not to Come | c19 | Americas, US | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
74 | William L Andrews | Editing Minority Texts | contemporary | Americas, US | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||||||||||||||
75 | The Queer Zine Archive Project https://www.qzap.org/v8/index.php | contemporary | Americas, US | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Ricardo D. Salvatore | Libraries and the legibility of Hispanic America: Early Latin American Collections in the United States | c20 | Americas, US, Latin America | yes | no | no | no | no | In Hybrid Americas: Contacts, Contrasts, and Confluences in New World Literatures and Cultures, eds. Josef Raab and Martin Butler | |||||||||||||||||
77 | Eric Gardner | “`This Attempt of Their Sister’: Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig from Printer to Readers.” | c19 | Americas, US, new england | no | yes | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Laura R. Braunstein, Peter Carini, and Hazel-Dawn Dumpert | “And There Was a Large Number of People”: The Occom Circle Project at the Dartmouth College Library | c18 | Americas, US, new england | no | yes | no | no | no | link to open access edition of book collection http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/booksanddigitalresources/digital/9780838987681_humanities_OA.pdf | |||||||||||||||||
79 | Lauren Grewe | Samson Occom’s Missionary Correspondence and the Common Pot | c18 | Americas, US, new england | no | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
80 | R. J. Ellis | Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig: A Cultural Biography of a’Two-Story’ African American Novel. | c19 | Americas, US, new england | no | yes | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
81 | The Occam Circle https://www.dartmouth.edu/~occom/index.html | c18 | Americas, US, new england | no | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Elizabeth McHenry | Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies | c20 | Americas, US, South | no | yes | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr, eds. | Ten Books that Shaped the British Empire | modern | British Empire (South Africa, Australia, India, etc) | yes | edited collection | |||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Catherine Bell | “’A Precious Raft to Save the World’” The Interaction of Scriptural Traditions and Printing in a Chinese Morality Book” | East Asia, China | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Cynthia Brokaw | Commercial Publishing in Late Imperial China | classical | East Asia, China | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Kai-wing Chow | Writing for Success: Printing, Examinations, and Intellectual Change in Late Ming China | East Asia, China | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Lucille Chia | The Development of the Jianyang Book Trade, | East Asia, China | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Timothy Brook | Edifying Knowledge: The Building of School Libraries in Ming China | East Asia, China | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Peter Kornicki | The Book in Japan | East Asia, Japan | yes | 9780824823375 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Alicia C. Montoya, Rindert Jagersma | "Marketing Maria Sibylla Merian, 1720–1800: Book Auctions, Gender, and Reading Culture in the Dutch Republic" | c18 | Europe | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Bonnie Mak | How the Page Matters | other | Europe | no | no | no | no | no | ||||||||||||||||||
92 | Maruca, Lisa | Bodies of Type: The Work of Textual Production in English Printers' Manuals | c18 | Europe | no | no | no | no | yes | https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/englishfrp/16/ | |||||||||||||||||
93 | Leah Knight, Micheline White, and Elizabeth Sauer, Editors | Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain | early modern | europe, britain | yes | https://www.press.umich.edu/9901165/womens_bookscapes_in_early_modern_britain | |||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Claire Bittel, Elaine Leong, Christine von Oertzen, eds. | Working with paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge | other | Europe, China, United States | no | no | no | no | yes | ||||||||||||||||||
95 | Helen Smith | ‘Grossly Material Things’: Women and Book Production in Early Modern England | early modern | Europe, England | no | no | no | no | yes | ||||||||||||||||||
96 | Sarah Werner | Finding Women in the Printing Shop | early modern | Europe, England | no | no | no | no | yes | ||||||||||||||||||
97 | Whitney Trettien | Media, Materiality, and Time in the History of Reading: The Case of the Little Gidding Harmonies (PMLA 2018) | c19 | Europe, England | no | no | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Cruz, Anne and Rosilie Hernandez (eds.) | Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World | early modern | Europe, Mexico, South America | no | no | no | no | yes | ||||||||||||||||||
99 | Elif Batuman | The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them | contemporary | Europe, Russia | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Juan Cole | Printing and Urban Islam in the Mediterranean World, 1890-1920 | c19 | Mediterranean | yes |