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Gender and Catalog: How Is Latin American Literature Written by Women Transposed Into Digital Formats?

Gender and Catalog: How Is Latin American Literature Written by Women Transposed Into Digital Formats?

Adrián R. Vila, Gloria Alejandra Lynch
Copyright: © 2022 |Volume: 15 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 23
ISSN: 1938-7857|EISSN: 1938-7865|EISBN13: 9781683180340|DOI: 10.4018/JITR.299379
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Vila, Adrián R., and Gloria Alejandra Lynch. "Gender and Catalog: How Is Latin American Literature Written by Women Transposed Into Digital Formats?." JITR vol.15, no.1 2022: pp.1-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/JITR.299379

APA

Vila, A. R. & Lynch, G. A. (2022). Gender and Catalog: How Is Latin American Literature Written by Women Transposed Into Digital Formats?. Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR), 15(1), 1-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/JITR.299379

Chicago

Vila, Adrián R., and Gloria Alejandra Lynch. "Gender and Catalog: How Is Latin American Literature Written by Women Transposed Into Digital Formats?," Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR) 15, no.1: 1-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/JITR.299379

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Abstract

The present papers aims at analyzing the actions of the publishing industry in connection with the transposition of Latin American and Caribbean literature written by women from printed to digital format. It presents some results obtained from searches and it detects and analyzes the strategies implemented by the main commercial platforms, digital libraries and bookstores in transposing literary works by women. Likewise, it describes the mechanisms negatively impacting on their representation in the general catalog of Latin American and Caribbean literature. The irruption of works in the public domain and best-selling works by female writers from the region is also discussed.