Graphic Borders : : Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future /

Graphic Borders : : Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future / / ed. by Christopher González, Frederick Luis Aldama.

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 cu...

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MitwirkendeR:
Aldama, Frederick Luis,
Espinosa, Frank,
Espinoza, Mauricio,
Fernández L’Hoeste, Héctor,
Frank, Kathryn M.,
Gil-Gómez, Ellen M.,
González, Christopher,
Haddad, Maya,
Hamilton, Patrick L.,
Millán, Isabel,
Montes, Brian,
Nama, Adilifu,
Poblete, Juan,
Rodríguez, Richard T.,
Stavans, Ilan,
HerausgeberIn:
Aldama, Frederick Luis,
González, Christopher,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2016
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Taking Back Control of Our Story Space: A Foreword
  • Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future—A Primer
  • 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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