Overview

Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings offers an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to analyzing Latinx studies and comics studies. The book draws together groundbreaking critical essays, practical pedagogical reflections, and original and republished short comics. The works in this collection discuss the construction of national identity and memory, undocumented narratives, Indigenous and Afro-Latinx experiences, multiracial and multilingual identities, transnational and diasporic connections, natural disasters and unnatural colonial violence, feminist and queer interventions, Latinx futurities, and more. Together, the critical and creative works in this collection begin to map out the emerging and evolving field of Latinx comics studies and to envision what might be possible in and through Latinx comics.   This collection moves beyond simply cataloguing and celebrating Latinx representation within comics. It examines how comics by, for, and about Latinx peoples creatively and conceptually experiment with the very boundaries of “Latinx” and portray the diverse lived experiences therein.

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Author:   Fernanda Díaz-Basteris ,  Maite Urcaregui ,  Fernanda Díaz-Basteris ,  Maite Urcaregui
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.653kg
ISBN:  

9781978835412

ISBN 10:   1978835418
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   15 April 2025
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Contents Introduction Latinx Comics Beyond Representation: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches 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…239 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-Menjivar Notes on Contributors Index"

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""Latinx Comics Studies is an indispensable volume that dives into the crosscurrents of Latinx identity and how it is shaped by and shapes the comics medium. A vital resource, this interdisciplinary collection firmly establishes that Latinx comics is a dynamic field at the forefront of today's critical study of graphic narratives."" -- Nhora Lucía Serrano * editor of Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis *

Author Information

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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