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Burning Down the House explores the political, economic and cultural landscape of 21st Century Latin America through comics. It examines works from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Perú, Colombia, México and Puerto Rico, and the resurgence of comics in recent decades.
List of contents
Burning Down the House – Introduction
PART I: Politics, protest and memory
1 Intertextuality and iconic images in Lucas Nine’s “Borges, inspector de aves”
2 The comic as a form of memory of two student movements in contemporary Mexico: the case of Grito de Victoria by Augusto Mora
3 The memory of Trauma under the dictatorship as portrayed in contemporary Chilean comics. A comparative perspective with Spain
4 Historical graphic novels in Uruguay 2000–2020
5 Between comics and memories, other stories of Brazil
6 Black visualities in Brazilian comics: a historical overview
7 And you will come marching with me: the Chilean comics after the social mobilization
PART II: Genre and sexual dissidence
8 Approaches to remember the bodies in two Latin American comics: “Notas al Pie” by Nacha Vollenweider and “Las Sinventuras de Jaime Pardo” by Vicho Plaza
9 Resisting imposed lines: (Feminine) territoriality in the work of Chilean comics artist Panchulei
10 Bolivian comics and the subalternity
11 Emancipated behavior: the body and art in the work of Águeda Noriega and Ale Torres
12 Comics as a means to illustrate sexual dissidence: Guadalupe and Poder Trans
13 Pervertion through funny comics: the case of Diego Parés’ Sr. and Sra. Rispo
About the author
Laura Cristina Fernández is a head professor in the Faculty of Arts and Design, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNCU), Argentina. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences and an MA in Latin American Art. She is actively involved in several research projects concerning comics, recent memory and crisis and has co-directed research projects on independent comics, fanzines and discourses on gender and sexual dissidence. Her most recent works as a comic artist are Ruptures. Les bébés volés du Franquisme (Ruptures. The stolen babies of Francoism, with Laure Sirieix, Bang Editions, 2022) and Turba. Memorias de Malvinas (Peat. Memories of Malvinas, Editorial Hotel de las Ideas, 2022).
Amadeo Gandolfo holds a History degree and a PhD in Social Sciences. He was granted postdoctoral scholarships by the Ibero-American Institute of Berlin in 2019 and by the Humboldt Foundation in 2020. He curated several comics exhibitions in the city of Buenos Aires. He edited Kamandi, an online magazine of comics criticism (www.revistakamandi.com) alongside Pablo Turnes. His research focuses on Ibero-American graphic humor from a transnational perspective and on authorship and collaboration conflicts in the field of American comics. He currently lives in Berlin.
Pablo Turnes is a History Professor and holds a PhD in Social Sciences. He teaches at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and is a researcher of the Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani (UBA). He currently lives in Berlin as a postdoctoral fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His research, under the direction of Dr. Stefan Rinke (LAI-Freie Universität Berlin), focuses on the topic of contemporary Latin American comics and their relationship to memory, trauma and recent Latin American history.
Summary
Burning Down the House explores the political, economic and cultural landscape of 21st Century Latin America through comics. It examines works from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Perú, Colombia, México and Puerto Rico, and the resurgence of comics in recent decades.
