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Frederick Luis Aldama
Shows how Latinx queer YA writers discard the ""same old story"" and offer critical representations of queerness that broaden YA writing and insist on the presence of queer teens of…
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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies is a comprehensive, global and interdisciplinary examination of the essential relationship between Gender, Sexuality, Comics and Graphic Novels.
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Twenty-first-century Latinx film offers much to celebrate, but as pop culture critic Frederick Luis Aldama writes, there’s still room to be purposefully critical. In this book contributors offer scholarship that…
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Offers an expansive and critical look at contemporary television by and about US Latinx communities. This volume is comprehensive in its coverage while diving into detailed and specific examples as…
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-…
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Jeff Smith (b. 1960) has made an indelible mark on the comics industry. This career-spanning collection of interviews, ranging from 1999 to 2017, enables readers to follow along with Smith’s…
Acclaimed comics scholar Frederick Luis Aldama shines light on how mainstream comics have clumsily distilled and reconstructed Indigenous identities and experiences. This book emphasizes how Indigenous comic artists are themselves…
An investigation of the ways in which race and sexuality intersect and function in Chicano/a literature and film.
Lively, thought-provoking interviews with twenty-one second wave Chicano/a poets, fiction writers, dramatists, documentary filmmakers, and playwrights.
The first comprehensive exploration of Latino representations in comics, from Marvel superheroes to creations by Latino masters such as Richard Dominguez.
This book seeks to redeem and refine the theory of magical realism in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film.
A deep exploration of the ways in which postcolonial narrative fiction both acts on and is acted upon by the modern world.
A rousing rethinking of current critical theory and the role of culture in realms ranging from art and literature to justice and history.
Offers an accessibly written, multidisciplinary investigation of contemporary Mexican cinema that combines industrial, technical, and sociopolitical analysis with analyses of modes of reception through cognitive theory. Mex-Cine aims to make…
The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies examines the history and evolution of the visual narrative genre from a global perspective. The Handbook brings together readable, jargon-free essays written by…
Children’s and young adult literature has become an essential medium for identity formation in contemporary Latino/a culture in the United States.
Latina/o popular culture has experienced major growth and change with the expanding demographic of Latina/os in mainstream media. In The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Pop Culture, contributors pay serious critical…
Comics Studies Here and Now marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study.
In one of the most rapidly growing areas of literary study, this volume provides the first comprehensive guide to teaching Latino/a literature in all variety of learning environments. Essays by…
Includes bicliographical references (p. [170]-183) and index.
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, Frederick Luis Aldama
Offers new understandings of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives by looking at the genre's growth in stories by and for young BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo analyses the complex…
Luis Aldama Frederick
The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture is the first comprehensive volume to explore the intersections between gender, sexuality and the creation, consumption and interpretation of popular…
Max Rodriguez (nee Maxine) could read before they could talk, devouring comics, novels, and books on philosophy.
The future of humanity hangs in the balance as black ice emerges in summer and a mysterious disease threatens to wipe swaths of the population from the planet. But there…
Frederick Luis Aldama (The Ohio State University, USA)
The topic of Latino/a Literature is not as easily identifiable as it may seem. The definition itself of Latino can change depending on who you are talking to-so, what do…
Latinx hypersexualized lovers or kingpin predators pulsate from our TVs, smartphones, and Hollywood movie screens. This book explores how legacies of colonization and capitalist exploitation and oppression have created toxic…
This collection of essays, by fifteen scholars across diverse fields, explores forty years of writing by Giannina Braschi, one of the most revolutionary Latinx authors of her generation.
This companion volume to Frederick Luis Aldama’s The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez brings together leading scholars who take a variety of theoretical and critical perspectives in analyzing the filmmaking of…
Arturo Islas
Finally, the acclaimed gay Chicano writer’s unpublished short fiction, poetry, and essays are available in this collection Prolific poet, essayist, and short story writer, Arturo Islas (1938-1991) is well known…
The first volume in a trailblazing series on world comics and graphic nonfiction, this book presents a comprehensive array of historical, formal, and cognitive approaches to Latino comics-an exciting popular…
Frederick Luis Aldama,Christopher Gonzalez
Not seeing real Latinxs on TV and film reels as kids inspired the authors of this book to dive deep into the world of mainstream television and film to uncover…
Ilan Stavans,Frederick Luis Aldama
A book-length conversation between two leading scholars on the themes and questions of Hispanic popular culture
Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Latina/o studies globally.
Xbox videogamer cholo cyberpunks. Infants who read before they talk. Vatos locos, romancing abuelos, border crossers and border smugglers, transvestites, drug kingpins, philosophically musing tweens, and so much more. The…
Matthew David Goodwin
In science fiction and popular culture, Latinxs and Latinx immigrants are often correlated with invading space aliens. Matthew David Goodwin traces how Latinx science fiction writers are reclaiming the space…
Exploring a wide range of mainstream and independent comic books, this is the first comprehensive collection of scholarly and archival work on multicultural comics from around the world.
