Frederick Luis Aldama
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Border Cinema
Reimagining Identity through Aesthetics
Edited by Monica Hanna and Rebecca A. Sheehan
Rutgers University Press
This collection demonstrates how border cinema resists contemporary border fortification processes, showing how cinematic media have functioned technologically and aesthetically to engender contemporary shifts in national and individual identities while proposing alternative conceptions of these identities to those propagated by the often restrictive current political rhetoric and ideologies that represent a backlash to globalization.
- Copyright year: 2019
The Latinx Files
Race, Migration, and Space Aliens
By Matthew David Goodwin; Foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama
Rutgers University Press
The Latinx Files: Race, Migration, and Space Aliens traces how Latinx science fiction writers are reclaiming the space alien from its xenophobic legacy in science fiction. It argues that the space alien is a vital Latinx figure preserving Latinx cultures by activating the myriad possible constructions of the space alien to represent race and migration.
- Copyright year: 2021
Latinx Comics Studies
Critical and Creative Crossings
Edited by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui; Introduction by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui
Rutgers University Press
Latinx Comics Studies considers the role of comics and graphic narrative in picturing the rich realities of Latinx communities. It brings together groundbreaking critical essays, practical reflections, original and republished short comics to explore how comics by, for, and about Latinx peoples creatively and conceptually experiment with the very boundaries of “Latinx.”
- Copyright year: 2025
Latinx Comics Studies
Critical and Creative Crossings
Edited by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui; Introduction by Fernanda Díaz-Basteris and Maite Urcaregui
Rutgers University Press
Latinx Comics Studies considers the role of comics and graphic narrative in picturing the rich realities of Latinx communities. It brings together groundbreaking critical essays, practical reflections, original and republished short comics to explore how comics by, for, and about Latinx peoples creatively and conceptually experiment with the very boundaries of “Latinx.”
- Copyright year: 2025
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