The Labor of Literature: Democracy and Literary Culture in Modern Chile

by Jane D. Griffin

By producing literature in nontraditional forms -- books made of cardboard trash, posters in subway stations, miniature shopping bags, digital publications, and even children's toys -- Chileans have made and circulated literary objects in defiance of state censorship and independent of capitalist definitions of value. In The Labor of Literature Jane D. Griffin studies amateur and noncommercial forms of literary production in Chile that originated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625342098
• ISBN13: 9781625342096
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"