Growing up in the gutter : diaspora & comics /
Ricardo Quintana Vallejo
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Omfang | xiii, 173 pages : : illustrations ;
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| Opplysninger | Daydreaming new social maps with the global graphic Bildung / a foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama -- Ghosts and color : young women in Anya's Ghost, The Best We Could Do, and Juliet Takes a Breath -- Police brutality in black and white : invisible boys in I am Alfonso Jones and Manuelito -- Queer/LGBTQ+ coming-of-age and the fantastic : rebellious identities in You Brought Me the Ocean, The Magic Fish, and The Low, Low Woods -- Visual and textual : hybrid childhood in Where Are You From?, Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, Areli is a Dreamer, and My Two Border Towns.. - "Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and 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 tercentennial genre in its graphic version"--
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| ISBN | 9780816553310
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