Growing Up in the Gutter - Diaspora and Comics

Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora & Comics is the first book-length exploration of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives written in the context of diasporic and immigrant communities in the United States by and for young, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. The book analyzes the complex identity formation of first- and subsequent-generation diasporic protagonists in globalized rural and urban environments and dissects the implications that marginalized formative processes have for the genre in its graphic version.

About the author

Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo is an assistant professor at Rhode Island College. He is the author of Children of Globalization. He studies migration in narratives about youth development and grew up in Mexico City.

Summary

Offers new understandings of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives by looking at the genre’s growth in stories by and for young BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo analyses the complex identity formation of first- and subsequent-generation migrant protagonists in globalized rural and urban environments.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Luis Aldama, Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.2024
• EAN: 9780816553310
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-5331-0
• No. of pages: 190
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 153 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 270 g
• Illustrations: 34 b&w illustrations
• Series: Latinx Pop Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies