Latinx Comics Studies

Introduction
Preface: A Comic Overview of Latinx Comics Studies by Francisca Cárcamo Rojas (Panchulei)
Latinx Comics Beyond Representation: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui
Part I: Complicating National Histories and Cultural Identities
Chapter 1: Reimagining Indigenous Women’s History in Pre-Contact Mesoamerica via Daniel Parada’s Zotz: Serpent and Shield by Jessica Rutherford
Chapter 2: Filling the Holes of Cuban Memory: Remembering the Revolution and Exile in the Comics Classroom by Stephanie Contreras
Chapter 3: Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching the Comic Anthology Puerto Rico Strong in the Latinx Literature Classroom by Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado
Comic: Nationalism in the Puerto Rican Context by Nicky Rodriguez
Part II: Latinx Migrations: Borders and Borderlands
Chapter 4: The Fence and the Grid: Reading the US-Mexico Border Fence as an Infrastructure for Latinx Comics by Marcel Brousseau and Katherine Kelp-Stebbins
Chapter 5: El Peso Hero: Comic Book Protagonists of the (Un)Documented Latinx Experience by Kaitlin E. Thomas and Héctor Rodriguez III
Chapter 6: The Missing Latinx: Updated Scenes of California Noir in the Unveiling of an American Nightmare by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste
Comic: I’m American, and I’m Multilingual. Why Does it Feel So Scary to Speak in Another Language in Public? by Terry Blas
Part III: Feminist and Queer Interventions
Chapter 7: From Conditional Belonging to Self-Definition: The Hija Loquita Breaks Free in Blackbird by Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero
Chapter 8: "It’s on every single page": Character Development in Latinx Comics for Youth by Nicole Ann Amato
Chapter 9: Translating Queer Afro-Latinx Experiences through Comics Aesthetics in Breena Nuñez’s Autobiographical Comics by Maite Urcaregui
Comic: Short Comic. “This Body Is Actually Unsettled” by Breena Nuñez
Part IV: Practices of Placemaking
Chapter 10: Caribbean Urban Belonging: Teaching Paradoxes of Citizenship with Independent Puerto Rican Comics by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris
Chapter 11: United States of Bananas: A Graphic Novel as Decluttering and Decolonizing Doubled Journey of the Self by Frederick Luis Aldama
Chapter 12: Through the GoogleGland: Virtual Reality and Hijacked Futures in Inés Estrada’s Alienation by Lars Allen
Short Comic: “Prelude” by Conrado Parraguirre
Coda
Drawing Inferences and Reading the Frames of Latinx Media by Jennifer Gómez Menjívar
Notes on Contributors
Index

Preface: A Comic Overview of Latinx Comics Studies xi
FRANCISCA CÁRCAMO ROJAS
Introduction: Latinx Comics beyond Representation:
Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches 1
FERNANDA DÍ A Z-BASTERIS
AND MAITE URCAREGUI
Part I Complicating National Histories
and Cultural Identities
1 Reimagining Indigenous Women’s
History in Precontact
Mesoamerica via Daniel Parada’s Zotz: Serpent and Shield 21
JESSICA RUTHERFORD
2 Filling the Holes of Cuban Memory: Remembering the
Revolution and Exile in the Comics Classroom 41
STEPHANIE CONTRERAS
3 Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching the Comic Anthology
Puerto Rico Strong in the Latinx Literature
Classroom 63
JENNIFER CAROCCIO MALDONADO
Comic: Nationalism in the Puerto Rican Context 81
NICKY RODRIGUE Z
Part II Latinx Migrations: Borders and Borderlands
4 The Fence and the Grid: Reading the U.S.-Mexico
Multi-Border
as an Infrastructure for Comics 89
MARCEL BROUSSE AU AND K ATHERINE KELP-STEBBINS
5 El Peso Hero: Comic Book Protagonists of the
(Un)Documented Latinx Experience 111
K AI TLIN E. THOMAS AND HÉCTOR RODRIGUE Z III
6 The Missing Latinx: Updated Scenes of California Noir
in the Unveiling of an American Nightmare 129
HÉCTOR FERNÁNDE Z L’HOESTE
Comic: I’m American, and I’m Multilingual. Why Does
It Feel So Scary to Speak in Another Language in Public? 151
TERRY BL AS
Part III Feminist and Queer Interventions
7 From Conditional Belonging to Self-Definition:
The Hija
Loquita Breaks Free
in Blackbird 163
K ATLIN MARISOL SWEENE Y- ROMERO
8 “It’s on Every
Single Page”: Reading Character Development
in Queer Latinx Comics for Youth 185
NICOLE ANN AMATO
9 Translating Queer Afro-Latinx
Experiences through Comics
Aesthetics in Breena Nuñez’s Autobiographical Comics 205
MAITE URCAREGUI
Comic: This Body Is Actually Unsettled 229
BREENA NUÑE Z
Part IV Practices of Placemaking
10 Caribbean
Urban Belonging: Thinking Paradoxes of
Citizenship with Independent
Puerto Rican Comics 235
FERNANDA DÍA Z-BASTERIS
11 United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel as Decluttering
and Decolonizing Doubled Journey of the Self 259
FREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA
12 Through the GoogleGland: Virtual Reality
and Hijacked
Futures
in Inés Estrada’s Alienation 271
L ARS ALLEN
Comic: Prelude 291
CONRADO PARRAGUIRRE
Coda: Drawing Inferences and Reading the Frames of
Latinx Media 295
JENNIFER GÓMEZ MENJÍVAR
Acknowledgments
307
Notes on Contributors 313
Index 000