Abstract
This article examines an event that emerged in a literary field situated in a peripheral national space and later expanded to Latin America, North America, Europe, Asia and Africa: the inception of the cartoneras or cardboard publishing houses. The singularity of this movement is due to the shaping of a new object: the “cartonero book”. These cardboard publishing projects help dismantle the hegemonic circuits of both the production and the circulation of books. They have a great impact not only in the literary and the editorial fields but also in the academic and the scientific fields. This paper first characterises the Eloísa Cartonera project, the first cardboard publishing house created in Argentina en 2003. Secondly, the paper will describe the effects of this project in the national, regional and transnational circuits. Finally, we show why we can consider these effects as nano-interventions in the making of World Literature.
Keywords:
Publishing houses; Argentina; World Literature; nano-intervention