Fernanda Díaz–basteris, Maite Urcaregui, Francisca Cárcamo Rojas (, Jessica Rutherford, Jennifer Caroccio Maldon, Stephanie Contreras

Latinx Comics Studies

Critical and Creative Crossings
Herausgeber: Díaz-Basteris, Fernanda; Urcaregui, Maite

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Produktbeschreibung

Latinx Comics Studies considers the role of comics and graphic narrative in picturing the rich realities of Latinx communities. It brings together groundbreaking critical essays, practical reflections, original and republished short comics to explore how comics by, for, and about Latinx peoples creatively and conceptually experiment with the very boundaries of “Latinx.”  

Produktdetails

• Critical Graphics
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781978835405
• ISBN-10: 197883540X
• Artikelnr.: 71879998

Autorenporträt

FERNANDA DÍAZ-BASTERIS is an assistant professor of Latinx new media and ethnic studies at The Ohio State University. Her research and teaching seek to understand US Caribbean/Latinx cultural forms of resistance to displacement, coloniality, and racial capitalism through literature, popular art, and graphic narratives from the mid-twentieth to twenty-first centuries.   MAITE URCAREGUI is an assistant professor of Latinx literatures in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San José State University. Her research and teaching examine twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latinx and multiethnic US literatures, visual cultures, and comics through feminist, queer, and critical race theories and histories.

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Introduction
Preface: A Comic Overview of Latinx Comics Studies by Francisca Cárcamo
Rojas (Panchulei)
Latinx Comics Beyond Representation: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional
Approaches by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui
Part I: Complicating National Histories and Cultural Identities
Chapter 1: Reimagining Indigenous Women’s History in Pre-Contact
Mesoamerica via Daniel Parada’s Zotz: Serpent and Shield by Jessica
Rutherford
Chapter 2: Filling the Holes of Cuban Memory: Remembering the Revolution
and Exile in the Comics Classroom by Stephanie Contreras
Chapter 3: Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching the Comic Anthology Puerto
Rico Strong in the Latinx Literature Classroom by Jennifer Caroccio
Maldonado
Comic: Nationalism in the Puerto Rican Context by Nicky Rodriguez
Part II: Latinx Migrations: Borders and Borderlands
Chapter 4: The Fence and the Grid: Reading the US-Mexico Border Fence as an
Infrastructure for Latinx Comics by Marcel Brousseau and Katherine
Kelp-Stebbins
Chapter 5: El Peso Hero: Comic Book Protagonists of the (Un)Documented
Latinx Experience by Kaitlin E. Thomas and Héctor Rodriguez III
Chapter 6: The Missing Latinx: Updated Scenes of California Noir in the
Unveiling of an American Nightmare by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste
Comic: I’m American, and I’m Multilingual. Why Does it Feel So Scary to
Speak in Another Language in Public? by Terry Blas
Part III: Feminist and Queer Interventions
Chapter 7: From Conditional Belonging to Self-Definition: The Hija Loquita
Breaks Free in Blackbird by Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero
Chapter 8: "It’s on every single page": Character Development in Latinx
Comics for Youth by Nicole Ann Amato
Chapter 9: Translating Queer Afro-Latinx Experiences through Comics
Aesthetics in Breena Nuñez’s Autobiographical Comics by Maite Urcaregui
Comic: Short Comic. “This Body Is Actually Unsettled” by Breena Nuñez
Part IV: Practices of Placemaking
Chapter 10: Caribbean Urban Belonging: Teaching Paradoxes of Citizenship
with Independent Puerto Rican Comics by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris
Chapter 11: United States of Bananas: A Graphic Novel as Decluttering and
Decolonizing Doubled Journey of the Self by Frederick Luis Aldama
Chapter 12: Through the GoogleGland: Virtual Reality and Hijacked Futures
in Inés Estrada’s Alienation by Lars Allen
Short Comic: “Prelude” by Conrado Parraguirre
Coda
Drawing Inferences and Reading the Frames of Latinx Media by Jennifer Gómez
Menjívar
Notes on Contributors
Index
Preface: A Comic Overview of Latinx Comics Studies xi
FRANCISCA CÁRCAMO ROJAS
Introduction: Latinx Comics beyond Representation:
Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches 1
FERNANDA DÍ A Z-BASTERIS
AND MAITE URCAREGUI
Part I Complicating National Histories
and Cultural Identities
1 Reimagining Indigenous Women’s
History in Precontact
Mesoamerica via Daniel Parada’s Zotz: Serpent and Shield 21
JESSICA RUTHERFORD
2 Filling the Holes of Cuban Memory: Remembering the
Revolution and Exile in the Comics Classroom 41
STEPHANIE CONTRERAS
3 Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching the Comic Anthology
Puerto Rico Strong in the Latinx Literature
Classroom 63
JENNIFER CAROCCIO MALDONADO
Comic: Nationalism in the Puerto Rican Context 81
NICKY RODRIGUE Z
Part II Latinx Migrations: Borders and Borderlands
4 The Fence and the Grid: Reading the U.S.-Mexico
Multi-Border
as an Infrastructure for Comics 89
MARCEL BROUSSE AU AND K ATHERINE KELP-STEBBINS
5 El Peso Hero: Comic Book Protagonists of the
(Un)Documented Latinx Experience 111
K AI TLIN E. THOMAS AND HÉCTOR RODRIGUE Z III
6 The Missing Latinx: Updated Scenes of California Noir
in the Unveiling of an American Nightmare 129
HÉCTOR FERNÁNDE Z L’HOESTE
Comic: I’m American, and I’m Multilingual. Why Does
It Feel So Scary to Speak in Another Language in Public? 151
TERRY BL AS
Part III Feminist and Queer Interventions
7 From Conditional Belonging to Self-Definition:
The Hija
Loquita Breaks Free
in Blackbird 163
K ATLIN MARISOL SWEENE Y- ROMERO
8 “It’s on Every
Single Page”: Reading Character Development
in Queer Latinx Comics for Youth 185
NICOLE ANN AMATO
9 Translating Queer Afro-Latinx
Experiences through Comics
Aesthetics in Breena Nuñez’s Autobiographical Comics 205
MAITE URCAREGUI
Comic: This Body Is Actually Unsettled 229
BREENA NUÑE Z
Part IV Practices of Placemaking
10 Caribbean
Urban Belonging: Thinking Paradoxes of
Citizenship with Independent
Puerto Rican Comics 235
FERNANDA DÍA Z-BASTERIS
11 United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel as Decluttering
and Decolonizing Doubled Journey of the Self 259
FREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA
12 Through the GoogleGland: Virtual Reality
and Hijacked
Futures
in Inés Estrada’s Alienation 271
L ARS ALLEN
Comic: Prelude 291
CONRADO PARRAGUIRRE
Coda: Drawing Inferences and Reading the Frames of
Latinx Media 295
JENNIFER GÓMEZ MENJÍVAR
Acknowledgments
307
Notes on Contributors 313
Index 000