Redrawing The Nation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste, Juan Poblete

   Pages 1-16

3. Monica Power: Comics, Society, Brazil

   • Eva Paulino Bueno, Terry Caesar

   Pages 17-34

4. Condorito, Chilean Popular Culture and the Work of Mediation

   • Juan Poblete

   Pages 35-53

5. Race and Gender in The Adventures of Kalimán, El Homère Increíble

   • Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste

   Pages 55-80

6. Cuban Cartoonists: Masters of Coping

   • John A. Lent

   Pages 81-95

7. Argentina’s Montoneros: Comics, Cartoons, and Images as Political Propaganda in the Underground Guerrilla Press of the 1970s

   • Fernando Reati

   Pages 97-110

8. Memín Pinguin: Líos Gordos con los Gringos

   • Robert McKee Irwin

   Pages 111-130

9. Acevedo and His Predecessors

   • Carla Sagástegui

   Pages 131-150

10. Brazilian Comics: Origin, Development, and Future Trends

    • Waldomiro Vergueiro

    Pages 151-170

11. Pavane for a Deceased Comic: Decadence, Illusions, and Demise of an Exuberant Narrative

    • Armando Bartra

    Pages 171-190

12. The Fierro Years: An Exercise in Melancholy

    • Pablo de Santis

    Pages 191-203

13. Mexican Comics: A Bastion of Imperfection

    • Ricardo Peláez

    Pages 205-225

14. Ilan Stavans’s Latino USA: A Cartoon History (of a Cosmopolitan Intellectual)

    • Paul Allatson

    Pages 227-250

15. The Bros. Hernandez: A Latin Presence in Alternative U.S. Comics

    • Ana Merino

    Pages 251-269

16. Back Matter

    Pages 271-276

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This volume discusses the role of comics in the formation of a modern sense of nationhood in Latin America and the rise of a collective Latino identity in the USA. It is one of the first attempts - in English and from a cultural studies perspective - to cover Latin/o American comics with a fully continental scope. Specific cases include cultural powerhouses like Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, as well as the production of lesser-known industries, like Chile, Cuba, and Peru.

• Comic
• culture
• gender
• identity
• national identity
• society

"This book sets the context and the basis for arguing the ways in which comics, graphic novels, and cartoons mediate (positively, negatively and in between) the development of the state and the formulation of a coherent national culture. It will allow students to learn about Spanish-language comics and graphic novels in Latin America and the US, but without needing to be fluent Spanish speakers. The volume is significant since there are no other books like it, especially in English." - Dr. Mari Castañeda, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"There is now little doubt that popular culture genres such as the comic book merit serious critical analysis. Far from just a production of insignificant mass consumption, the comic book is a site of important information, ideologemes, and interpretations of the stress lines of the diverse national consciousness and imaginaries of Latin America. Redrawing the Nation is a superb inventory of critical essays and a superb entry in the sort of analytical bibliography this genre now compels." - David William Foster, Regents' Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University

Juan Poblete is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste is Associate Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook

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