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Díaz-Basteris, Fernanda and Maite Urcaregui, eds. Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings. Critical Graphics. New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2025. 
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781978835412
BibTeX citation key: DiazBasteris2025
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Keywords: Collection of essays, Latin America
Creators: Díaz-Basteris, Urcaregui
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Abstract
Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings offers an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to analyzing Latinx studies and comics studies. The book draws together groundbreaking critical essays, practical pedagogical reflections, and original and republished short comics. The works in this collection discuss the construction of national identity and memory, undocumented narratives, Indigenous and Afro-Latinx experiences, multiracial and multilingual identities, transnational and diasporic connections, natural disasters and unnatural colonial violence, feminist and queer interventions, Latinx futurities, and more. Together, the critical and creative works in this collection begin to map out the emerging and evolving field of Latinx comics studies and to envision what might be possible in and through Latinx comics.
This collection moves beyond simply cataloguing and celebrating Latinx representation within comics. It examines how comics by, for, and about Latinx peoples creatively and conceptually experiment with the very boundaries of “Latinx” and portray the diverse lived experiences therein.

Table of Contents

Preface: A Comic Overview of Latinx Comics Studies (xi)
FRANCISCA CÁRCAMO ROJAS

Introduction: Latinx Comics beyond Representation: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches (1)
FERNANDA DÍAZ-BASTERIS AND MAITE URCAREGUI

Part I Complicating National Histories
and Cultural Identities
1 Reimagining Indigenous Women’s History in Precontact Mesoamerica via Daniel Parada’s Zotz: Serpent and Shield (21)
JESSICA RUTHERFORD
2 Filling the Holes of Cuban Memory: Remembering the Revolution and Exile in the Comics Classroom (41)
STEPHANIE CONTRERAS
3 Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching the Comic Anthology Puerto Rico Strong in the Latinx Literature Classroom (63)
JENNIFER CAROCCIO MALDONADO

Comic: Nationalism in the Puerto Rican Context (81)
NICKY RODRIGUEZ

Part II Latinx Migrations: Borders and Borderlands
4 The Fence and the Grid: Reading the U.S.-Mexico Multi-Border as an Infrastructure for Comics (89)
MARCEL BROUSSEAU AND KATHERINE KELP-STEBBINS
5 El Peso Hero: Comic Book Protagonists of the (Un)Documented Latinx Experience (111)
KAITLIN E. THOMAS AND HÉCTOR RODRIGUEZ III
6 The Missing Latinx: Updated Scenes of California Noir in the Unveiling of an American Nightmare (129)
HÉCTOR FERNÁNDE Z L’HOESTE

Comic: I’m American, and I’m Multilingual. Why Does It Feel So Scary to Speak in Another Language in Public? (151)
TERRY BLAS

Part III Feminist and Queer Interventions
7 From Conditional Belonging to Self-Definition: The Hija Loquita Breaks Free in Blackbird (163)
KATLIN MARISOL SWEENEY- ROMERO
8 “It’s on Every Single Page”: Reading Character Development in Queer Latinx Comics for Youth (185)
NICOLE ANN AMATO
9 Translating Queer Afro-Latinx Experiences through Comics Aesthetics in Breena Nuñez’s Autobiographical Comics (205)
MAITE URCAREGUI

Comic: This Body Is Actually Unsettled (229)
BREENA NUÑEZ

Part IV Practices of Placemaking
10 Caribbean Urban Belonging: Thinking Paradoxes of Citizenship with Independent Puerto Rican Comics (235)
FERNANDA DÍAZ-BASTERIS
11 United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel as Decluttering and Decolonizing Doubled Journey of the Self (259)
FREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA
12 Through the GoogleGland: Virtual Reality and Hijacked Futures in Inés Estrada’s Alienation (271)
LARS ALLEN

Comic: Prelude (291)
CONRADO PARRAGUIRRE

Coda: Drawing Inferences and Reading the Frames of Latinx Media (295)
JENNIFER GÓMEZ MENJÍVAR

Acknowledgments (307)
Notes on Contributors (313)
Index (000)


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