Synopses & Reviews
This volume discusses the role of comics in the formation of a modern sense of nationhood in Latin America and the rise of a collective Latino identity in the USA. It is one of the first attempts--in English and from a cultural studies perspective--to cover Latin/o American comics with a fully continental scope. Specific cases include cultural powerhouses like Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, as well as the production of lesser-known industries, like Chile, Cuba, and Peru.
Review
"This book sets the context and the basis for arguing the ways in which comics, graphic novels, and cartoons mediate (positively, negatively and in between) the development of the state and the formulation of a coherent national culture. It will allow students to learn about Spanish-language comics and graphic novels in Latin America and the US, but without needing to be fluent Spanish speakers. The volume is significant since there are no other books like it, especially in English."--Dr. Mari Castañeda, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“There is now little doubt that popular culture genres such as the comic book merit serious critical analysis. Far from just a production of insignificant mass consumption, the comic book is a site of important information, ideologemes, and interpretations of the stress lines of the diverse national consciousness and imaginaries of Latin America. Redrawing the Nation is a superb inventory of critical essays and a superb entry in the sort of analytical bibliography this genre now compels.”-- David William Foster, Regents' Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University
Synopsis
This volume discusses the role of comics in the formation of a modern sense of nationhood in Latin America and the rise of a collective Latino identity in the USA. It is one of the first attempts--in English and from a cultural studies perspective--to cover Latin/o American comics with a fully continental scope. Specific cases include cultural powerhouses like Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, as well as the production of lesser-known industries, like Chile, Cuba, and Peru.
Synopsis
This book is a collective effort to map out some of the complexities structuring the field of comics production and its history and analysis in Latin/o America.
Synopsis
Redrawing The Nation: Latin American Comics and The Graphic Construction of Cultural identities is a collective effort to map out some of the complexities structuring the field of comics production and its history and analysis in Latin/o America.
About the Author
Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste is Associate Professor of Latin American culture at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He specializes in Latin American cultural studies. His publications include Narrativas de representación urbana (1998) and Rockin Las Americas: The Global Politics Of Rock In Latin/o America (2004).
Juan Poblete is Associate Professor of Latin/o American Literature and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. His is author of Literatura chilena del siglo XIX: entre públicos lectores y figuras autoriales (2003), editor of Critical Latin American and Latino Studies (2003), and co-editor--with Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephan--of Andres Bello (2009).
Table of Contents
Mônica Power; Comics, Society, Brazil--Eva Paulino Bueno and Terry Caesar * Condorito, Chilean Popular Culture, and The Work of Mediation--Juan Poblete * Race and Gender in The Adventures of Kalimán, el Hombre Increíble--Héctor Fernández LHoeste * Cuban Cartoonists: Masters of Coping-- John A. Lent * Argentinas Montoneros: Comics, Cartoons, and Images as Political Propaganda in The Underground Guerrilla Press of The 1970s--Fernando Reati * Memín Pinguín: Líos Gordos con los Gringos--Robert McKee Irwin * Acevedo and His Predecessors--Carla Sagástegui * Brazilian Comics: Origin, Development, and Future Trends--Waldomiro Vergueiro * Pavane for A Deceased Comic: Decadence, Illusions, and Demise of an Exuberant Narrative--Armando Barta * The Fierro Years: An Exercise in Melancholy--Pablo de Santis * Mexican Comics: A Bastion of Imperfection--Ricardo Peláez * Ilan Stavanss Latino USA: A Cartoon History (of A Cosmopolitan Intellectual)--Paul Allatson * The Bros. Hernandez: A Latin Presence in Alternative U.S. Comics--Ana Merino