Archives, Libraries, Collections, and Databases: A First Look at Digital Literary Studies in Mexico

Archives, Libraries, Collections, and Databases: A First Look at Digital Literary Studies in Mexico

Digital Humanities

This article documents the professional and intellectual developments in the field of Digital Humanities and Digital Literary Studies in Mexico. It begins by surveying the evolution of scholarship production regarding digital archives, the media impact on the significance of archives, the accessibility of archives, and complexities in the preservation of archives. The article proceeds to explore the intersection of digital archives in Mexico with the origin and fortification of the Digital Humanities in the United States, highlighting the manner in which these junctions have promoted the establishment of appropriate methods and vocabularies to use in the examination of digitized and born-digital materials and productions. It concludes by examining various Mexican digital projects recently developed, proposing the uniqueness of Mexican literary scholarship on the digital humanities, emphasizing its decolonial perspectives, community building, and creative educational endeavors. Ortega denotes the exponential growth of Digital Humanities in Mexico, particularly under the disciplines of information sciences, communications, and philosophy. Digital literary projects and textual academia hold some major representation in Mexico as well, coming in numerous forms depending on objectives, the collections and subjects they deal with, and the institutional support that accompanies them. Among the projects that stand out the most in the Mexican practice of the digital humanities, Ortega underlines, one must recognize the archival developments of projects such as the libraries of the UNAM.

Ortega, Élika

Hispanic Review, University of Pennsylvania Press

2018

Taveras, Sabrina

Journal Article

ISSN: 1553-0639

Élika Ortega. “Archives, Libraries, Collections, and Databases: A First Look at Digital Literary Studies in Mexico” 86, no. 2 (2018): 229–47. doi:10.1353/hir.2018.0016.