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Winner of the LASA Southern Cone Studies Section Book Prize in the
Humanities, 2013 Starting in the late nineteenth century, the
region of South America known as the Rio de la Plata (containing
modern-day Uruguay and Argentina) boasted the highest literacy
rates in Latin America. In Everyday Reading, William Acree explores
the history, events, and culture that gave rise to the region's
remarkable progress. With a specific focus on its print culture, in
the form of newspapers, political advertisements and documents,
schoolbooks, and even stamps and currency, Acree creates a portrait
of a literary culture that permeated every aspect of life. Everyday
Reading argues that the introduction of the printing press into the
Rio de la Plata in the 1780s hastened the collapse of Spanish
imperial control and played a major role in the transition to
independence some thirty years later. After independence, print
culture nurtured a new identity and helped sustain the region
through the tumult of civil war in the mid-1800s. Acree concludes
by examining the role of reading in formal education, which had
grown exponentially by the early twentieth century as
schoolchildren were taught to fulfill traditional roles in society.
Ultimately, Everyday Reading humanizes literary culture,
demonstrating its unrecognized and unexpected influence in everyday
lives.
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