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Table of Contents:

• Taking Back Control of Our Story Space: A Foreword (Frank Espinosa); Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future-A Primer (Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González); Part I. Alternativas; 1. Out of Sequence: Time and Meaning in Los Bros Hernandez Patrick L. Hamilton; 2. Recreative Graphic Novel Acts in Gilbert Hernandez's Twenty-First-Century Neo-Noirs (Frederick Luis Aldama); 3. Three Decades with Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez: An Odyssey by Interview (Christopher González); Part II. Cuerpo Comics.
• 4. Biographic Challenges: Wilfred Santiago's 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente (Christopher González) 5. Wrestling with Comic Genres and Genders: Luchadores as Signifiers in Sonambulo and Locas (Ellen M. Gil-Gómez); Part III. Tortilla Strips; 6. Latino Identity and the Market: Making Sense of Cantú and Castellanos's Baldo (Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste); 7. The Archeology of the Post-social in the Comics of Lalo Alcaraz: La Cucaracha and Migra Mouse: Political Cartoonson Immigration (Juan Poblete); 8. My Debt to Rius (Ilan Stavans); Part IV. A Bird, a Plane ... Straight and Queer Super-Lats.
• 9. The Alien Is Here to Stay: Otherness, Anti-Assimilation, and Empowerment in Latino/a Superhero Comics Mauricio Espinoza10. Anya Sofía (Araña) Corazón: The Inner Webbings and Mexi-Ricanization of Spider- Girl (Isabel Millán); 11. Revealing Secret Identities: Gay Latino Superheroes and the Necessity of Disclosure (Richard T. Rodríguez); Part V. Multiverses, Admixtures, and More; 12. Everybody Wants to Rule the Multiverse: Latino Spider-Men in Marvel's Media Empire (Kathryn M. Frank); 13. Mapping the Blatino Badlands and Borderlands of American Pop Culture (Adilifu Nama and Maya Haddad).
• 14. The Paradox of Miles Morales:Social Gatekeeping and the Browningof America's Spider-Man (Brian Montes)Works Cited; Contributor Notes; Index.

Contributors:

Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969- , editor

González, Christopher , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Graphic borders (First edition; Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016 — ISBN 9781477309148; ISBN 1477309144; LCCN 2015033633; OCLC Number 920966195)

Related Series:

World comics and graphic nonfiction series

Subjects:

Comic books, strips, etc. — Latin America — Criticism and interpretation

Latin America — History — Comic books, strips, etc.

Comic books, strips, etc. — Social aspects — Latin America

Popular culture — Latin America

Comic books, strips, etc.

Criticism and interpretation

Comic books, strips, etc. — Social aspects

Popular culture

Latin America

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 7, 2016).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 304 pages) : illustrations.

Call Numbers:

PN6790.L29 G73 2016eb

ISBNs:

9781477309179 (electronic bk.)
1477309179 (electronic bk.)
9781477309162 (non-library e-book)
1477309160 (non-library e-book)
9781477309148 [Invalid]
1477309144 [Invalid]
9781477309155 [Invalid]
1477309152 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

957773304