Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: A Comic Overview of Latinx Comics Studies xi
4. Introduction: Latinx Comics beyond Representation: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches 1
5. Part I Complicating National Histories and Cultural Identities
6. 1 Reimagining Indigenous Women’s History in Precontact Mesoamerica via Daniel Parada’s Zotz: Serpent and Shield 21
7. 2 Filling the Holes of Cuban Memory: Remembering the Revolution and Exile in the Comics Classroom 41
8. 3 Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching the Comic Anthology Puerto Rico Strong in the Latinx Literature Classroom 63
9. Nationalism in the Puerto Rican Context 81
10. Part II Latinx Migrations: Borders and Borderlands
11. 4 The Fence and the Grid Reading the U.S.-Mexico Multi-Border as an Infrastructure for Comics 89
12. 5 El Peso Hero: Comic Book Protagonists of the (Un)Documented Latinx Experience 111
13. 6 The Missing Latinx: Updated Scenes of California Noir in the Unveiling of an American Nightmare 129
14. I’m American, and I’m Multilingual. Why Does It Feel So Scary to Speak in Another Language in Public? 151
15. Part III Feminist and Queer Interventions
16. 7 From Conditional Belonging to Self-Definition: The Hija Loquita Breaks Free in Blackbird 163
17. 8 “It’s on Every Single Page” Reading Character Development in Queer Latinx Comics for Youth 185
18. 9 Translating Queer Afro-Latinx Experiences through Comics Aesthetics in Breena Nuñez’s Autobiographical Comics 205
19. This Body Is Actually Unsettled 229
20. Part IV Practices of Placemaking
21. 10 Caribbean Urban Belonging: Thinking Paradoxes of Citizenship with Independent Puerto Rican Comics 235
22. 11 United States of Banana: A Graphic Novel as Decluttering and Decolonizing Doubled Journey of the Self 259
23. 12 Through the GoogleGland: Virtual Reality and Hijacked Futures in Inés Estrada’s Alienation 271
24. Prelude 291
25. Coda: Drawing Inferences and Reading the Frames of Latinx Media 295
26. Acknowledgments 307
27. Notes on Contributors 313
28. Index 321