BIBFRAME Work

Title

Latin American comics in the twenty-first century

Type

  • Monograph
  • Text

Contribution

Subject

  • Literature and transnationalism--Latin America (LCSH)
  • Comic books, strips, etc.--Latin America--21st century--Themes, motives. (LCSH)
  • Comic books, strips, etc.--21st century--Political aspects--Latin America. (LCSH)
  • Comic books, strips, etc.--Latin America--21st century--History and criticism. (LCSH)
  • Neoliberalism in comics (LCSH)
  • Pandemics in literature (LCSH)
  • Art and transnationalism--Latin America (LCSH)
  • Zombies in comics (LCSH)
  • Transgender people in art (LCSH)

Language

Illustrative Content

Classification

  • DDC: 741.5/980905 (Assigner: dlc)
  • LCC: PN6790.L29 S36 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

Supplementary content

Summary

"Comics in Latin America have been most often been studied on a country-by-country basis, say as Mexican comics or Argentine or Brazilian. In this book, James Scorer instead is examining them across the region, writing the first comprehensive study of 21st-century Latin American comics. Contemporary comics creators, who are increasingly women, trans, or non-binary, have been organizing around transnational networks and so, despite occasional push-back, are moving beyond nationalistic boundaries to explore new aspects of the medium and new subjects and themes that transgress the political, social, spatial, and cultural borders that often define the region. Using examples primarily from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay, Scorer organizes his study around this notion of border crossings and focuses on topics of transnationalism, transgender feminisms, transgressive punk bodies, contagious bodies (in regards to both zombies and pandemics), and the neoliberal city"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Before the Volcano : print magazines and Latin American comics -- Traversing bodies and borders : transnational and transgender comic feminisms -- Punks and punctured bodies : zines and DIY comics -- Comic-stripping the land : graphic neo-extractivisms -- Mobilizing the comics archive -- Comics, contagion, and the undead -- Comics, encounter, and enchantment in the neoliberal city

Authorized Access Point

Scorer, James, 1978-. Latin American comics in the twenty-first century

Geographic Coverage

Admin Metadata

  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:11:47.640776+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23277550

Admin Metadata

  • Date: 2026-09-11
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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