GLOBAL BOOKS ANTHOLOGY:GERVAIS JASSAUD'S LIMITED EDITION BOOKS WITH ANGLOPHONE AUTHORS熱爾書‧若索出版的英語作者限量版書籍

This article analyzes the editorial practice of Gervais Jassaud, focusing on limited-edition books that bring together Anglophone authors within the context of the transnational circulation of printed culture. The author argues that such collections should be read less as objects of "aesthetic curat...

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Published in:Review of Culture
Main Author: Barbara Montefalcone
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Published: Instituto Cultural de Macau 2015
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Online Access:https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40049/2339
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description This article analyzes the editorial practice of Gervais Jassaud, focusing on limited-edition books that bring together Anglophone authors within the context of the transnational circulation of printed culture. The author argues that such collections should be read less as objects of "aesthetic curation" and more as cultural devices that produce encounters—selected, staged, and commercialized—between literary traditions and global heritage networks. Methodologically, the text draws on a critical-interpretive reading of paratexts and editorial statements (e.g., colophons, collection descriptions, and discursive framing devices of presentation), articulating them with the broader history of anthologies and with the "Oriental/Western" problematic that traverses representations of Macau and the Lusophone space. As a result, the article highlights recurrent strategies of legitimation: the aestheticization of the book as a means of cultural mediation, the construction of exceptionality through limitation and design, and the integration of Anglophone authors as a way to expand audiences and symbolic capitals. It concludes that Jassaud's limited editions function simultaneously as affective archives and as instruments of cultural translation, reinforcing—but also transforming—narrative hierarchies in the international circulation of books and images.
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spelling GLOBAL BOOKS ANTHOLOGY:GERVAIS JASSAUD'S LIMITED EDITION BOOKS WITH ANGLOPHONE AUTHORS熱爾書‧若索出版的英語作者限量版書籍
This article analyzes the editorial practice of Gervais Jassaud, focusing on limited-edition books that bring together Anglophone authors within the context of the transnational circulation of printed culture. The author argues that such collections should be read less as objects of "aesthetic curation" and more as cultural devices that produce encounters—selected, staged, and commercialized—between literary traditions and global heritage networks. Methodologically, the text draws on a critical-interpretive reading of paratexts and editorial statements (e.g., colophons, collection descriptions, and discursive framing devices of presentation), articulating them with the broader history of anthologies and with the "Oriental/Western" problematic that traverses representations of Macau and the Lusophone space. As a result, the article highlights recurrent strategies of legitimation: the aestheticization of the book as a means of cultural mediation, the construction of exceptionality through limitation and design, and the integration of Anglophone authors as a way to expand audiences and symbolic capitals. It concludes that Jassaud's limited editions function simultaneously as affective archives and as instruments of cultural translation, reinforcing—but also transforming—narrative hierarchies in the international circulation of books and images.
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Review of Culture
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title GLOBAL BOOKS ANTHOLOGY:GERVAIS JASSAUD'S LIMITED EDITION BOOKS WITH ANGLOPHONE AUTHORS熱爾書‧若索出版的英語作者限量版書籍
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title_full GLOBAL BOOKS ANTHOLOGY:GERVAIS JASSAUD'S LIMITED EDITION BOOKS WITH ANGLOPHONE AUTHORS熱爾書‧若索出版的英語作者限量版書籍
title_fullStr GLOBAL BOOKS ANTHOLOGY:GERVAIS JASSAUD'S LIMITED EDITION BOOKS WITH ANGLOPHONE AUTHORS熱爾書‧若索出版的英語作者限量版書籍
title_full_unstemmed GLOBAL BOOKS ANTHOLOGY:GERVAIS JASSAUD'S LIMITED EDITION BOOKS WITH ANGLOPHONE AUTHORS熱爾書‧若索出版的英語作者限量版書籍
title_short GLOBAL BOOKS ANTHOLOGY:GERVAIS JASSAUD'S LIMITED EDITION BOOKS WITH ANGLOPHONE AUTHORS熱爾書‧若索出版的英語作者限量版書籍
title_sort global books anthology:gervais jassaud's limited edition books with anglophone authors熱爾書‧若索出版的英語作者限量版書籍
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