Spring 2024: Marina Garona Gravier: " "Printed Books in the Indigenous Languages of Latin America"

PLEASE NOTE: THIS PRESENTATION IS IN SPANISH
"Printed Books in the Indigenous Languages of Latin America During the Colonial Period: An Approach from History, Editorial Studies, and Materiality”
Printing came to the New World mainly to produce books in the numerous indigenous languages of the Americas. In order to do so, it was necessary to make adaptations to the type and in many cases to complement typographical boxes and other materials that arrived imported from Europe with patches and with additional letters from writing systems other than Latin. Those needs generated a series of semiotic processes that had a direct impact on the consolidation of local writings and the visuality of colonial printed texts.
Based on analyses of a large set of printed books of various editorial genres in languages spoken in Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Argentina and Chile, I will discuss the repertoire of these typographical strategies and propose a typology of linguistic notation problems and their attempted resolutions in American printing.
Marina Garone Gravier is a researcher at the Bibliographic Research Institute at the National University of Mexico, a member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico, and concurrent researcher at the Aesthetic Research Institute and American Art of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In September 2023, she was elected as member of the Mexican Academy of Language (Academia Mexicana de la Lengua).
Among her numerous books are Historia de la imprenta y la tipografía colonial Puebla de los Ángeles (1642-1821) (UNAM, 2015), El Arte de ymprenta de Alejandro Valdés (1819) (Fondo Editorial Estado de México, 2016) and Signos, letras y tipografía en América Latina. Aproximaciones interdiscipinarias a la escritura y el diseño de textos (Facultad de Artes y Diseño-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2019), which won the 2020 Editorial Art Award from Cámara Nacional de la Industria Editorial Mexicana.