{"product_id":"latin-american-comics-in-the-twenty-first-century-transgressing-the-frame-9781477329023","title":"Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Given comics' ability to cross borders, Latin American creators have used the form to transgress the political, social, spatial, and cultural borders that shape the region. A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of twenty-first-century Latin American comics, \u003ci\u003eLatin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e documents how these works move beyond national boundaries and explores new aspects of the form, its subjects, and its creators. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Latin American comics production is arguably more interconnected and more networked across national borders than ever before. Analyzing works from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, James Scorer organizes his study around forms of \"transgression,\" such as transnationalism, border crossings, transfeminisms, punk bodies, and encounters in the neoliberal city. Scorer examines the feminist comics collective Chicks on Comics; the DIY comics zine world; nonfiction and journalistic comics; contagion and zombie narratives; and more. Drawing from archives across the United States, Europe, and Latin America, \u003ci\u003eLatin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e posits that these comics produce micronarratives of everyday life that speak to sites of social struggle shared across nation states. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50488932761874,"sku":"9781477329023","price":47.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4d9d4da3-89e3-4c80-adf1-211b1a4ff1a4.jpg?v=1730485610","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/latin-american-comics-in-the-twenty-first-century-transgressing-the-frame-9781477329023","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}