Latinx Comics Studies

Name: Latinx Comics Studies | Critical and Creative Crossings
Brand: Rutgers University Press
Price: 82.99 EUR
Availability: OnlineOnly

Critical and Creative Crossings

Fernanda Diaz-Basteris Maite Urcaregui(Herausgeber*in)

Rutgers University Press

1. Auflage

Erschienen am 15. April 2025

277 Seiten

E-Book

PDF mit Adobe-DRM

Systemvoraussetzungen

978-1-9788-3544-3 (ISBN)

82,99 €inkl. 7% MwSt.

Systemvoraussetzungen

für PDF mit Adobe-DRM

E-Book Einzellizenz

Als Download verfügbar

Beschreibung

Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings offers an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to analyzing Latinx studies and comics studies. The book draws together groundbreaking critical essays, practical pedagogical reflections, and original and republished short comics. The works in this collection discuss the construction of national identity and memory, undocumented narratives, Indigenous and Afro-Latinx experiences, multiracial and multilingual identities, transnational and diasporic connections, natural disasters and unnatural colonial violence, feminist and queer interventions, Latinx futurities, and more. Together, the critical and creative works in this collection begin to map out the emerging and evolving field of Latinx comics studies and to envision what might be possible in and through Latinx comics.

This collection moves beyond simply cataloguing and celebrating Latinx representation within comics. It examines how comics by, for, and about Latinx peoples creatively and conceptually experiment with the very boundaries of "Latinx" and portray the diverse lived experiences therein.

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"Shattering mainstream understandings of comics, these essays reveal how comic art by Latinx creators has played important roles in forging communities, mobilizing archives, and enriching our understandings of space, place, and identity."- William Orchard, editor of Latinx Literature and Critical Futurities, 1992-2020
"Latinx Comics Studies is an indispensable volume that dives into the crosscurrents of Latinx identity and how it is shaped by and shapes the comics medium. A vital resource, this interdisciplinary collection firmly establishes that Latinx comics is a dynamic field at the forefront of today's critical study of graphic narratives."- Nhora Lucia Serrano, editor of Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis
"Shattering mainstream understandings of comics, these essays reveal how comic art by Latinx creators has played important roles in forging communities, mobilizing archives, and enriching our understandings of space, place, and identity."- William Orchard, editor of Latinx Literature and Critical Futurities, 1992-2020
"Latinx Comics Studies is an indispensable volume that dives into the crosscurrents of Latinx identity and how it is shaped by and shapes the comics medium. A vital resource, this interdisciplinary collection firmly establishes that Latinx comics is a dynamic field at the forefront of today's critical study of graphic narratives."- Nhora Lucia Serrano, editor of Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis
"Shattering mainstream understandings of comics, these essays reveal how comic art by Latinx creators has played important roles in forging communities, mobilizing archives, and enriching our understandings of space, place, and identity."- William Orchard, editor of Latinx Literature and Critical Futurities, 1992-2020
"Latinx Comics Studies is an indispensable volume that dives into the crosscurrents of Latinx identity and how it is shaped by and shapes the comics medium. A vital resource, this interdisciplinary collection firmly establishes that Latinx comics is a dynamic field at the forefront of today's critical study of graphic narratives."- Nhora Lucia Serrano, editor of Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis

Weitere Details

Weitere Ausgaben

Personen

Inhalt

Introduction
Preface: A Comic Overview of Latinx Comics Studies by Francisca Carcamo Rojas (Panchulei)
Latinx Comics Beyond Representation: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches by Fernanda Diaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui
Part I: Complicating National Histories and Cultural Identities
Chapter 1: Reimagining Indigenous Women's History in Pre-Contact Mesoamerica via Daniel Parada's Zotz: Serpent and Shield by Jessica Rutherford
Chapter 2: Filling the Holes of Cuban Memory: Remembering the Revolution and Exile in the Comics Classroom by Stephanie Contreras
Chapter 3: Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching the Comic Anthology Puerto Rico Strong in the Latinx Literature Classroom by Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado
Comic: Nationalism in the Puerto Rican Context by Nicky Rodriguez
Part II: Latinx Migrations: Borders and Borderlands
Chapter 4: The Fence and the Grid: Reading the US-Mexico Border Fence as an Infrastructure for Latinx Comics by Marcel Brousseau and Katherine Kelp-Stebbins
Chapter 5: El Peso Hero: Comic Book Protagonists of the (Un)Documented Latinx Experience by Kaitlin E. Thomas and Hector Rodriguez III
Chapter 6: The Missing Latinx: Updated Scenes of California Noir in the Unveiling of an American Nightmare by Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste
Comic: I'm American, and I'm Multilingual. Why Does it Feel So Scary to Speak in Another Language in Public? by Terry Blas
Part III: Feminist and Queer Interventions
Chapter 7: From Conditional Belonging to Self-Definition: The Hija Loquita Breaks Free in Blackbird by Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero
Chapter 8: "It's on every single page": Character Development in Latinx Comics for Youth by Nicole Ann Amato
Chapter 9: Translating Queer Afro-Latinx Experiences through Comics Aesthetics in Breena Nunez's Autobiographical Comics by Maite Urcaregui
Comic: Short Comic. "This Body Is Actually Unsettled" by Breena Nunez
Part IV: Practices of Placemaking
Chapter 10: Caribbean Urban Belonging: Teaching Paradoxes of Citizenship with Independent Puerto Rican Comics by Fernanda Diaz-Basteris
Chapter 11: United States of Bananas: A Graphic Novel as Decluttering and Decolonizing Doubled Journey of the Self by Frederick Luis Aldama
Chapter 12: Through the GoogleGland: Virtual Reality and Hijacked Futures in Ines Estrada's Alienation by Lars Allen
Short Comic: "Prelude" by Conrado Parraguirre
Coda
Drawing Inferences and Reading the Frames of Latinx Media by Jennifer Gomez Menjivar
Notes on Contributors
Index

Preface: A Comic Overview of Latinx Comics Studies xi
FRANCISCA CARCAMO ROJAS
Introduction: Latinx Comics beyond Representation:
Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches 1
FERNANDA DI A Z-BASTERIS
AND MAITE URCAREGUI
Part I Complicating National Histories
and Cultural Identities
1 Reimagining Indigenous Women's
History in Precontact
Mesoamerica via Daniel Parada's Zotz: Serpent and Shield 21
JESSICA RUTHERFORD
2 Filling the Holes of Cuban Memory: Remembering the
Revolution and Exile in the Comics Classroom 41
STEPHANIE CONTRERAS
3 Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching the Comic Anthology
Puerto Rico Strong in the Latinx Literature
Classroom 63
JENNIFER CAROCCIO MALDONADO
Comic: Nationalism in the Puerto Rican Context 81
NICKY RODRIGUE Z
Part II Latinx Migrations: Borders and Borderlands
4 The Fence and the Grid: Reading the U.S.-Mexico
Multi-Border
as an Infrastructure for Comics 89
MARCEL BROUSSE AU AND K ATHERINE KELP-STEBBINS
5 El Peso Hero: Comic Book Protagonists of the
(Un)Documented Latinx Experience 111
K AI TLIN E. THOMAS AND HECTOR RODRIGUE Z III
6 The Missing Latinx: Updated Scenes of California Noir
in the Unveiling of an American Nightmare 129
HECTOR FERNANDE Z L'HOESTE
Comic: I'm American, and I'm Multilingual. Why Does
It Feel So Scary to Speak in Another Language in Public? 151
TERRY BL AS
Part III Feminist and Queer Interventions
7 From Conditional Belonging to Self-Definition:
The Hija
Loquita Breaks Free
in Blackbird 163
K ATLIN MARISOL SWEENE Y- ROMERO
8 "It's on Every
Single Page": Reading Character Development
in Queer Latinx Comics for Youth 185
NICOLE ANN AMATO
9 Translating Queer Afro-Latinx
Experiences through Comics
Aesthetics in Breena Nunez's Autobiographical Comics 205
MAITE URCAREGUI
Comic: This Body Is Actually Unsettled 229
BREENA NUNE Z
Part IV Practices of Placemaking
10 Caribbean
Urban Belonging: Thinking Paradoxes of
Citizenship with Independent
Puerto Rican Comics 235
FERNANDA DIA Z-BASTERIS
11 United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel as Decluttering
and Decolonizing Doubled Journey of the Self 259
FREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA
12 Through the GoogleGland: Virtual Reality
and Hijacked
Futures
in Ines Estrada's Alienation 271
L ARS ALLEN
Comic: Prelude 291
CONRADO PARRAGUIRRE
Coda: Drawing Inferences and Reading the Frames of
Latinx Media 295
JENNIFER GOMEZ MENJIVAR
Acknowledgments
307
Notes on Contributors 313
Index 000

Systemvoraussetzungen

Als PDF speichern Als Link merken