El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond : : Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil / / David William Foster.
“El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium’s most significant and copious output. Argentine graphic narrative emerged in the 1980s, awakened by Héctor Oesterheld’s groundbreaking 1950s serial El Ete...
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| 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
- Preface
- PART I. Argentina and the Forging of a Tradition of Graphic Narrative: Military Tyranny and Redemocratization
- 1. Masculinity as Privileged Human Agency in H. G. Oesterheld’s El Eternauta
- 2. The Bar as Theatrical Heterotopia: José Muñoz and Carlos Sampayo’s El Bar de Joe
- 3. Resisting Tyranny: The Perramus Figure of Alberto Breccia and Juan Sasturain
- 4. The Lion in Winter: Carlos Sampayo and Francisco Solano López’s Police Commissioner Evaristo
- 5. News Bulletins from the Gender Wars: Patricia Breccia’s Sin novedad en el frente
- PART II. Brazil: Graphic Narrative as Postmodern and Globalized Consciousness
- 6. Of Death and the Road: Rafael Grampá’s Mesmo Delivery
- 7. The Unbearable Weight of Being: Daniel Galera and Rafael Coutinho’s Cachalote
- 8. Copacabana and Other Hellish Fantasies: Sandro Lobo and Odyr Berdardi’s Copacabana
- 9. Days of Death: Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá’s Daytripper as Existential Journey
- 10. Women’s Wondrous Power versus the Telluric Gods in Angélica Freitas and Odyr Bernardi’s Guadalupe
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index