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García, Enrique. "The Industry and Aesthetics of Latina/o Comic Books." The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture. Ed. Frederick Luis Aldama. Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions. London, New York: Routledge, 2016. 101–09. Added by: joachim (8/1/18, 5:43 PM) Last edited by: joachim (8/2/18, 11:32 AM) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English BibTeX citation key: Garcia2016 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Aesthetics, Digitalization, Ethnicity, Latin America, USA Creators: Aldama, García Publisher: Routledge (London, New York) Collection: The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture |
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“Enrique García’s chapter turns us to yet another area where Latina/os are making significant creative headway: comic books. After making important distinctions between U.S. Latina/o and Latin American comic book cultures, he goes on to analyse how they create counter narratives to the Anglo-dominant mainstream. In a careful analysis of alternative and mainstream comics by and about U.S. Latina/os, García opens our eyes to the complex textures of Latinidad offered by this visual-verbal storytelling format. García ends by gesturing toward the emancipatory possibilities of digital comic creation (the Comixology app, for instance) and consumption (internet and iPad devices, for instance) of visual-verbally constructed stories that continue to do the work of unsettling fixed categories of nation, community, ethnicity, race, and gender.” (Introduction)
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