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

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.