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Latinx comix: graphic memoirs and comic biographies as counter history
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Latinx comix: graphic memoirs and comic biographies as counter history
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Caroccio Maldonado
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Jennifer
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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My dissertation is the first study of Latinx graphic life stories. I address the gap in scholarship on graphic memoirs and comic biographies by and about Latinx people. I compare four graphic narratives, two biographical comics, Who is Ana Mendieta? (2011) by Christine Redfern and Caro Caron, and Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker (2015) by Julian Voloj and Claudia Ahlering; and two graphic memoirs, Spit and Passion (2012) by Cristy C. Road, and Darkroom: A Memoir (2012) by Lila Quintero Weaver. As Latinx cultural products, I explore how all four narratives deal with social movements that have taken place throughout the United States, spanning the 1960s-1990s. I contend that each comic is deeply situated in various social moments of U.S. history. Latinx Comix further explores how each of these graphic narratives uses the genre of life writing to reflect the cultural and societal flux of the time.
I participate in the shift in comics studies scholarship that engages in gender studies and critical race theory. The narrative capabilities of Latinx graphic memoirs and comic biographies reclaim a Latinx subjectivity in the United States that presents the multiplicity of Latinx stories. My project places Latinx identity and subjecthood formation within a cultural, literary, and visual context. I argue that a comparative examination of these graphic narratives reveals how they contest dominant histories that either erase U.S. Latinx communities from social movements or characterize them as passive participants of history. Reading these four books together reveals how they present a counternarrative of Latinx experiences in the United States. The counternarratives that they offer are significant because they show the variety of Latinx identities while also speaking to the specificity of each group’s struggle.
I participate in the shift in comics studies scholarship that engages in gender studies and critical race theory. The narrative capabilities of Latinx graphic memoirs and comic biographies reclaim a Latinx subjectivity in the United States that presents the multiplicity of Latinx stories. My project places Latinx identity and subjecthood formation within a cultural, literary, and visual context. I argue that a comparative examination of these graphic narratives reveals how they contest dominant histories that either erase U.S. Latinx communities from social movements or characterize them as passive participants of history. Reading these four books together reveals how they present a counternarrative of Latinx experiences in the United States. The counternarratives that they offer are significant because they show the variety of Latinx identities while also speaking to the specificity of each group’s struggle.
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Comics
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American Studies
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