Archives of Pornography: Illicit Postcards, Erotic Photos, and Stag Films in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Abstract

This roundtable explores the archives of early "erotica" and "pornography" in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, with a focus on how explicit materials intersect with historical archives, filmotecas, fototecas, museums, and private collections. Since late nineteenth- and early to mid-twentieth-century sexually explicit materials are not systematically collected or preserved in most archives, participants theorize their own collection practices and archival methodologies and analyze the materials they have found. We also examine popular circulation of "illicit" and "obscene" materials into the present, through used bookstores, antiques markets, and online auction houses throughout Latin America, Spain, and Portugal.

Sub Track

• Section Sessions

Session Organizers

• Zeb J Tortorici, New York University

• Maite Zubiaurre, UCLA

Chairs

• Jade Madrid, Tulane University

• Tracy R North, Library of Congress

Presenters

• Maite Zubiaurre, UCLA

• Andrea L Cuarterolo, CONICET/Universidad de Buenos Aires

• Hinnerk Onken, University of Cologne

• Itziar Rodriguez de Rivera, Cornell University

• Zeb J Tortorici, New York University

• Carlos A Capellino Fuentes, Tulane University

• Anne G Rubenstein, York University