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Graphic Borders: Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future 1st Edition by Frederick 9781477309162 1477309160

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Graphic Borders: Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future 1st Edition Frederick Luis Aldama Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Frederick Luis Aldama, Christopher González

ISBN(s): 1477309144

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 27.90 MB

Year: 2016

Language: English

SKU: EB-44495350 Category: Uncategorized Tags: Borders, Christopher González, Frederick Luis Aldama, Graphic

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Graphic Borders: Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future 1st Edition Frederick Luis Aldama – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781477309162, 1477309160

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ISBN 10: 1477309160
ISBN 13:9781477309162
Author: Frederick

Graphic Borders

From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love & Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional superheroes made nontraditional by means of racial and sexual identity (e.g., Miles Morales/Spider-Man), comics have become a vibrant medium to express Latino identity and culture. Indeed, Latino fiction and nonfiction narratives are rapidly proliferating in graphic media as diverse and varied in form and content as is the whole of Latino culture today.Graphic Borders presents the most thorough exploration of comics by and about Latinos currently available. Thirteen essays and one interview by eminent and rising scholars of comics bring to life this exciting graphic genre that conveys the distinctive and wide-ranging experiences of Latinos in the United States. The contributors’ exhilarating excavations delve into the following areas: comics created by Latinos that push the boundaries of generic conventions; Latino comic book author-artists who complicate issues of race and gender through their careful reconfigurations of the body; comic strips; Latino superheroes in mainstream comics; and the complex ways that Latino superheroes are created and consumed within larger popular cultural trends. Taken as a whole, the book unveils the resplendent riches of comics by and about Latinos and proves that there are no limits to the ways in which Latinos can be represented and imagined in the world of comics.

Table contents:

Part I. Alternativas
One. Out of Sequence: Time and Meaning in Los Bros Hernandez
Two. Recreative Graphic Novel Acts in Gilbert Hernandez’s Twenty-First-Century Neo-Noirs
Three. Three Decades with Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez: An Odyssey by Interview
Part II. Cuerpo Comics
Four. Biographic Challenges: Wilfred Santiago’s 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente
Five. Wrestling with Comic Genres and Genders: Luchadores as Signifiers in Sonambulo and Locas
Part III. Tortilla Strips
Six. Latino Identity and the Market: Making Sense of Cantú and Castellanos’s Baldo
Seven. The Archeology of the Post-social in the Comics of Lalo Alcaraz: La Cucaracha and Migra Mouse: Political Cartoons on Immigration
Eight. My Debt to Rius
Part IV. A Bird, a Plane . . . Straight and Queer Super-Lats
Nine. The Alien Is Here to Stay: Otherness, Anti-Assimilation, and Empowerment in Latino/a Superhero Comics
Ten. Anya Sofía (Araña) Corazón: The Inner Webbings and Mexi-Ricanization of Spider-Girl
Eleven. Revealing Secret Identities: Gay Latino Superheroes and the Necessity of Disclosure
Part V. Multiverses, Admixtures, and More
Twelve. Everybody Wants to Rule the Multiverse: Latino Spider-Men in Marvel’s Media Empire
Thirteen. Mapping the Blatino Badlands and Borderlands of American Pop Culture
Fourteen. The Paradox of Miles Morales: Social Gatekeeping and the Browning of America’s Spider-Man
Works Cited
Contributor Notes
Index
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