Join the Latinx Studies Program and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for a celebration of the release of Latinx Comics Studies: Critical and Creative Crossings, edited by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris.
The Latinx Comics Studies book tour features a brief presentation on the book’s scholarly contributions, the independent comics it examines, and the process of defining Latinx Comics Studies as a field. Editors Dr. Díaz-Basteris and Dr. Urcaregui will lead a discussion on the long and collaborative process of curating an edited collection, bringing together contributors from across the country, multiple disciplines, and diverse methodological approaches. A small reception will follow, and the book will be available for purchase on-site.
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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.
This event will be held in the Eisner Room in Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. Co-sponsored by the Center for Ethnic Studies, The Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Humanities Institute.
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