TY  - BOOK
AU  - Catalá-Carrasco,Jorge L.
AU  - Drinot,Paulo
AU  - Scorer,James
TI  - Comics & memory in Latin America
T2  - Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas Series
SN  - 9780822981589
AV  - PN6790.L29 C65 2017eb
U1  - 741.5/98 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Pittsburgh, Pa.
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Latin America
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Graphic novels
KW  - Popular culture and literature
KW  - National characteristics, Latin American, in literature
KW  - Collective memory in literature
KW  - Romans graphiques
KW  - Amérique latine
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Culture populaire et littérature
KW  - Mémoire collective dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Caribbean & Latin American
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - General
KW  - ART
KW  - Techniques
KW  - Drawing
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Comics and memory in Latin America; Jorge L. Catalá Carrasco, Paulo Drinot, and James Scorer --; Chapter 1; Raising the Cuban flag: comics, collective memory, and the Spanish-Cuban-American war (1898); Jorge L. Catalá Carrasco --; Chapter 2; How to make a revolution with words (and drawings) : history, memory, and identity in Oesterheld's comics; Edoardo Balletta --; Chapter 3; Mafalda : talisman of democracy and icon of nostalgia for the 1960s; Isabella Cosse --; Chapter 4; Comics in a revolutionary context : educational campaigns and collective memory in Sandinista Nicaragua; Christiane Berth --; Chapter 5; Cyber-cuy : remembering and forgetting the Peruvian Left / Paulo Drinot --; Chapter 6; Death in the Andes : comics as means to broach stories of political violence in Peru; Cynthia E. Milton --; Chapter 7; Memory on the road : American highways and prosthetic pasts in Gonzalo Martínez and Alberto Fuguet's Road story; James Scorer --; Chapter 8; Prosthetic memory and networked temporalities in Morro da favela by André Diniz; Edward King
N2  - "Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contributors, from a variety of disciplines including literary theory, cultural studies, and history, explore topics including national identity construction, narratives of resistance to colonialism and imperialism, the construction of revolutionary traditions, and the legacies of authoritarianism and political violence. The chapters offer a background history of comics and graphic novels in the region, and survey a range of countries and artists such as Joaquín Salvador Lavado (a.k.a Quino), Hector G. Oesterheld, and Juan Acevedo. They also highlight the unique ability of this art and literary form to succinctly render memory. In sum, this volume offers in-depth analysis of an understudied, yet key literary genre in Latin American memory studies and documents the essential role of comics during the transition from dictatorship to democracy"--
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