Latin American comics in the twenty-first century transgressing the frame
Before the Volcano : print magazines and Latin American comics -- Traversing bodies and borders : transnational and trans, and nonbionary comic feminisms -- Punks and punctured bodies : zines and DIY comics -- Comic-stripping the land : graphic neoextractivisms -- Mobilizing the comics archive -- Co...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Austin
University of Texas Press
2024
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Schriftenreihe: | World comics and graphic nonfiction series
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Before the Volcano : print magazines and Latin American comics -- Traversing bodies and borders : transnational and trans, and nonbionary comic feminisms -- Punks and punctured bodies : zines and DIY comics -- Comic-stripping the land : graphic neoextractivisms -- Mobilizing the comics archive -- Comics, contagion, and the undead -- Comics, encounter, and enchantment in the neoliberal city "Comics in Latin America have been most often been studied on a country-by-country basis, say as Mexican comics or Argentine or Brazilian. In this book, James Scorer instead is examining them across the region, writing the first comprehensive study of 21st-century Latin American comics. Contemporary comics creators, who are increasingly women, trans, or non-binary, have been organizing around transnational networks and so, despite occasional push-back, are moving beyond nationalistic boundaries to explore new aspects of the medium and new subjects and themes that transgress the political, social, spatial, and cultural borders that often define the region. Using examples primarily from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay, Scorer organizes his study around this notion of border crossings and focuses on topics of transnationalism, transgender feminisms, transgressive punk bodies, contagious bodies (in regards to both zombies and pandemics), and the neoliberal city"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | 264 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781477329023 978-1-4773-2902-3 9781477329030 978-1-4773-2903-0 |