Redrawing the nation
Subtitle: national identity in Latin/o American comics
By: edited by He ctor Ferna ndez L'Hoeste and Juan Poblete
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: New directions in Latino American cultures; New directions in Latino American cultures
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780230613126; 9780230613119
Subjects: Popular culture and literature; History and criticism; Comic books, strips; National characteristics, Latin American, in literature; Comic; Nationalbewusstsein; Caricatures and cartoons; Hispanic Americans in popular culture
Description: "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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / He ctor Ferna ndez L'Hoeste and Juan Poblete; title: Mo nica Power: comics, society, Brazil / Eva Paulino Bueno and Terry Caesar; title: Condorito,Chilean popular culture and the work of mediation / Juan Poblete; title: Race and gender in the adventures of Kalima n, El hombre increi ble / He   ctor Ferna ndez L'Hoeste; title: Cuban cartoonists: masters of coping / John A. Lent; title: Argentina's Montoneros: comics, cartoons, and images as political propaganda in the underground guerrilla press of the 1970s / Fernando Reati; title: Memi n pengui n: li os gordos con los gringos / Robert McKee Irwin; title: Acevedo and his predecessors; title: Carla Saga stegui; title: Brazilian comics: origin, development, and future trends / Waldomiro Vergueiro; title: Pavane for a deceased comic: decadence, illusions, and demise of an exuberant narrative / Armando Bartra; title: The Fierro years: an exercise in melancholy / Pablo de Santis; title: Mexican comics: a bastion of imperfection / Ricardo Pela ez; title: Ilan Stavans's Latino USA: a cartoon history (of a cosmopolitan intellectual) / Paul Allatson; title: The bros. Hernandez: a Latin presence in alternative U.S. comics / Ana Merino.