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The first volume in a trailblazing series on world comics and graphic nonfiction, this book presents a comprehensive array of historical, formal, and cognitive approaches to Latino comics-an exciting popular culture space that captures the distinctive and
List of contents
- Taking Back Control of Our Story Space: A Foreword (Frank Espinosa)
- Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future—A Primer (Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González)
- Part I. Alternativas
- One. Out of Sequence: Time and Meaning in Los Bros Hernandez (Patrick L. Hamilton)
- Two. Recreative Graphic Novel Acts in Gilbert Hernandez’s Twenty-First-Century Neo-Noirs (Frederick Luis Aldama)
- Three. Three Decades with Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez: An Odyssey by Interview (Christopher González)
- Part II. Cuerpo Comics
- Four. Biographic Challenges: Wilfred Santiago’s 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente (Christopher González)
- Five. Wrestling with Comic Genres and Genders: Luchadores as Signifiers in Sonambulo and Locas (Ellen M. Gil-Gómez)
- Part III. Tortilla Strips
- Six. Latino Identity and the Market: Making Sense of Cantú and Castellanos’s Baldo (Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste)
- Seven. The Archeology of the Post-social in the Comics of Lalo Alcaraz: La Cucaracha and Migra Mouse: Political Cartoons on Immigration (Juan Poblete)
- Eight. My Debt to Rius (Ilan Stavans)
- Part IV. A Bird, a Plane ... Straight and Queer Super-Lats
- Nine. The Alien Is Here to Stay: Otherness, Anti-Assimilation, and Empowerment in Latino/a Superhero Comics (Mauricio Espinoza)
- Ten. Anya Sofía (Araña) Corazón: The Inner Webbings and Mexi-Ricanization of Spider-Girl (Isabel Millán)
- Eleven. Revealing Secret Identities: Gay Latino Superheroes and the Necessity of Disclosure (Richard T. Rodríguez)
- Part V. Multiverses, Admixtures, and More
- Twelve. Everybody Wants to Rule the Multiverse: Latino Spider-Men in Marvel’s Media Empire (Kathryn M. Frank)
- Thirteen. Mapping the Blatino Badlands and Borderlands of American Pop Culture (Adilifu Nama and Maya Haddad)
- Fourteen. The Paradox of Miles Morales: Social Gatekeeping and the Browning of America’s Spider-Man (Brian Montes)
- Works Cited
- Contributors
- Index
About the author
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González
Summary
The first volume in a trailblazing series on world comics and graphic nonfiction, this book presents a comprehensive array of historical, formal, and cognitive approaches to Latino comics—an exciting popular culture space that captures the distinctive and
