Frederick Luis Aldama
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Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics
The University of Arizona Press
The foremost expert on Latinx comics, Frederick Luis Aldama guides us through the full archive of all the Latinx superheros in comics since the 1940s. Aldama takes us where the superheroes live—the barrios, the hospitals, the school rooms, the farm fields—and he not only shows us a view to the Latinx content, sometimes deeply embedded, but also provokes critical inquiry into the way storytelling formats distill and reconstruct real Latinos/as.
- Copyright year: 2017
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
Growing Up in the Gutter
Diaspora and Comics
By Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo; Foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama
The University of Arizona Press
Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora & Comics is the first book-length exploration of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives written in the context of diasporic and immigrant communities in the United States by and for young, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. The book analyzes the complex identity formation of first- and subsequent-generation diasporic protagonists in globalized rural and urban environments and dissects the implications that marginalized formative processes have for the genre in its graphic version.
- Copyright year: 2024
Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama
The University of Arizona Press
Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century offers an expansive and critical look at contemporary television by and about U.S. Latinx communities. This volume unpacks the negative implications of older representation and celebrates the progress of new representation, all while recognizing that television still has a long way to go.
- Copyright year: 2022
Picturing Childhood
Youth in Transnational Comics
University of Texas Press
Uniting the perspectives of comics studies and childhood studies, this pioneering collection is the first book devoted to representations of childhood in iconic US and international comics from the 1930s to the present.
- Copyright year: 2017
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
Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities
Edited by Arturo J. Aldama and Frederick Luis Aldama
The University of Arizona Press
With unity of heart and mind, the creative and the scholarly, Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities opens wide its arms to all non-binary, decolonial masculinities today to grow a stronger, resilient, and more compassionate new generation of Latinxs tomorrow.
- Copyright year: 2020
Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia
Conversations with Writers and Artists
University of Texas Press
Lively, thought-provoking interviews with twenty-one "second wave" Chicano/a poets, fiction writers, dramatists, documentary filmmakers, and playwrights.
- Copyright year: 2006
Brown on Brown
Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
University of Texas Press
An investigation of the ways in which race and sexuality intersect and function in Chicano/a literature and film.
- Copyright year: 2005
Postethnic Narrative Criticism
Magicorealism in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie
University of Texas Press
This book seeks to redeem and refine the theory of magical realism in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film.
- Copyright year: 2003
Your Brain on Latino Comics
From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive exploration of Latino representations in comics, from Marvel superheroes to creations by Latino masters such as Richard Dominguez.
- Copyright year: 2009
Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama
University of Texas Press
Noted scholars analyze a variety of creative works—plays by Samuel Beckett, novels by Maxine Hong Kingston, music compositions by Igor Stravinsky, art by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, and films by Michael Haneke— to offer a unified knowledge of artistic creativity.
- Copyright year: 2010
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