Comics and Memory in Latin America.

By:

Catalá Carrasco, Jorge

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Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780822981589

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Comics and Memory in Latin AmericaDDC classification:

741.5/98

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PN6790

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Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Contributors -- Index.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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