"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"--
How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers.
Given comics ability to cross borders, Latin American creators have used the form to transgress the political, social, spatial, and cultural borders that shape the region. A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of twenty-first-century Latin American comics, Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century documents how these works move beyond national boundaries and explores new aspects of the form, its subjects, and its creators.
Latin American comics production is arguably more interconnected and more networked across national borders than ever before. Analyzing works from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, James Scorer organizes his study around forms of transgression, such as transnationalism, border crossings, transfeminisms, punk bodies, and encounters in the neoliberal city. Scorer examines the feminist comics collective Chicks on Comics; the DIY comics zine world; nonfiction and journalistic comics; contagion and zombie narratives; and more. Drawing from archives across the United States, Europe, and Latin America, Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century posits that these comics produce micronarratives of everyday life that speak to sites of social struggle shared across nation states.
How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers.
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