Latinx Comics Studies
Latinx Comics Studies
Critical and Creative Crossings
Caroccio Maldonado, Jennifer; Diaz-Basteris, Fernanda; Urcaregui, Maite; Brousseau, Marcel; Diaz-Basteris, Fernanda; Rutherford, Jessica; Urcaregui, Maite; Contreras, Stephanie; Carcamo Rojas (Panchulei), Francisca; Rodriguez, Nicky
Rutgers University Press
04/2025
252
Mole
9781978835405
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Preface: A Comic Overview of Latinx Comics Studies by Francisca Carcamo Rojas (Panchulei)
Latinx Comics Beyond Representation: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches by Fernanda Diaz-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 Hector Rodriguez III
Chapter 6: The Missing Latinx: Updated Scenes of California Noir in the Unveiling of an American Nightmare by Hector Fernandez 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 by Nicole Ann Amato
Chapter 9: Translating Queer Afro-Latinx Experiences through Comics Aesthetics in Breena Nunez's Autobiographical Comics by Maite Urcaregui
Comic: Short Comic. "This Body Is Actually Unsettled" by Breena Nunez
Part IV: Practices of Placemaking
Chapter 10: Caribbean Urban Belonging: Teaching Paradoxes of Citizenship with Independent Puerto Rican Comics by Fernanda Diaz-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 Ines Estrada's Alienation by Lars Allen
Short Comic: "Prelude" by Conrado Parraguirre
Coda
Drawing Inferences and Reading the Frames of Latinx Media by Jennifer Gomez Menjivar
Notes on Contributors
Index
Preface: A Comic Overview of Latinx Comics Studies by Francisca Carcamo Rojas (Panchulei)
Latinx Comics Beyond Representation: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches by Fernanda Diaz-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 Hector Rodriguez III
Chapter 6: The Missing Latinx: Updated Scenes of California Noir in the Unveiling of an American Nightmare by Hector Fernandez 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 by Nicole Ann Amato
Chapter 9: Translating Queer Afro-Latinx Experiences through Comics Aesthetics in Breena Nunez's Autobiographical Comics by Maite Urcaregui
Comic: Short Comic. "This Body Is Actually Unsettled" by Breena Nunez
Part IV: Practices of Placemaking
Chapter 10: Caribbean Urban Belonging: Teaching Paradoxes of Citizenship with Independent Puerto Rican Comics by Fernanda Diaz-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 Ines Estrada's Alienation by Lars Allen
Short Comic: "Prelude" by Conrado Parraguirre
Coda
Drawing Inferences and Reading the Frames of Latinx Media by Jennifer Gomez Menjivar
Notes on Contributors
Index