Crop and Bleed

This Reader, published as part of the Litwin Books Critical Book, Publishing, and Literacy Studies series, brings the study of print and literacies culture (and its ancillary topics) into critical conversation with a variety theoretical discourses, so that we can better understand their roles as normalizing agents in the unequal distribution of social, cultural, and epistemic power. From rampant systemic racism, political unrest, the rise of nationalist ideologies, the increasing exploitation from capitalist and neoliberal structures, and widespread environmental catastrophe, print culture has a role to play in both how social problems sustain themselves, as well as how we might, potentially, find ways to reimagine new social formulations and cultural imaginations to counteract this effects. The aim of this collection is to think beyond geographic boundaries, and to formulate how print culture scholars, educators, and professionals, can decenter the epistemic frames common in the scholarship of print, visual, and literacy cultures, that perpetuate, overlook, or ignore these power relations.