CalRBS 2024 Lecture: Magalí Rabasa

INVITATION ONLY
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Huntington Library

6–7 p.m. talk in Haaga Hall
7–8 p.m. reception in Huntington Library Garden Dome (outdoors)

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Feminist Bibliography, Feminist Translation, and the Organic Book in Latin America Today

Over the past decade, radical publishing in Latin America has been profoundly impacted by the new feminist movements that have exploded across the region. In this context, the print book has become a renewed site of political, cultural, and economic intervention as activists, writers, and presses seek to connect their politics to their publishing practices. This presentation bridges insights from the growing fields of feminist bibliography and feminist translation studies to examine the practices and products of networks of small, radical presses in Latin America. Through the stories of the travels and multiple editions of a cluster of books, I explore how the materiality of print books can be understood as a site of various modes of feminist translation, not only linguistic, but also cultural, economic, and political, that in turn generate new possibilities for feminist solidarity.

Magalí Rabasa 

is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of World Languages & Literatures and Director of Ethnic Studies at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She received her PhD from the University of California, Davis in Cultural Studies with an emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research. Her research and teaching explore contemporary networks of social movements and radical publishing in the Americas, with a focus on the US, Mexico, and Argentina. Her first book, The Book in Movement: Autonomous Politics and the Lettered City Underground, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (2019) and in Spanish by Tinta Limón/Tren en Movimiento Ediciones (Argentina, 2021), Bajo Tierra Ediciones (Mexico, 2022), and Kikuyo Editorial (Ecuador/Chile, 2023). She currently serves on the Council of the Bibliographical Society of America.