Redrawing the Nation National Identity in Latin/o American Comics

by L'Hoeste, Héctor Fernández; Poblete, Juan

• ISBN13: 9780230613126
• ISBN10: 0230613128
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Juan Poblete is an associate professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste is a professor of Latin American Cultural Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Table of Contents

Mônica Power; Comics, Society, Brazil

Condorito, Chilean Popular Culture, and The Work of Mediation

Race and Gender in The Adventures of Kalimán, el Hombre Increíble

Cuban Cartoonists: Masters of Coping

Argentina’s Montoneros: Comics, Cartoons, and Images as Political Propaganda in The Underground Guerrilla Press of The 1970s

Memín Pinguín: Líos Gordos con los Gringos

Acevedo and His Predecessors

Brazilian Comics: Origin, Development, and Future Trends

Pavane for A Deceased Comic: Decadence, Illusions, and Demise of an Exuberant Narrative

The Fierro Years: An Exercise in Melancholy

Mexican Comics: A Bastion of Imperfection

Ilan Stavans’s Latino USA: A

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