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Your Brain on Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez (Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture) PDF

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Your Brain on Latino Comics Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series edited by frederick luis aldama, arturo j. aldama, and patrick colm hogan Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture includes monographs and edited volumes that incorporate cutting-edge research in cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, narrative theory, and related fields, exploring how this research bears on and illuminates cultural phenomena such as, but not limited to, literature, film, drama, music, dance, visual art, digital media, and comics. The volumes published in this series represent both specialized scholarship and interdisciplinary investigations that are deeply sensitive to cultural specifics and grounded in a cross-cultural understanding of shared emotive and cognitive principles. YOUR ON LATI NO COM ICS From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez frederick luis aldama University of Texas Press Austin Copyright © 2009 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2009 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/bpermission.html ∞ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48-1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969– Your brain on Latino comics : from Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez / Frederick Luis Aldama. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Cognitive approaches to literature and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-292-71934-7 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-292-71973-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Comic books, strips, etc.—United States—History and criticism. 2. Hispanic Americans—Comic books, strips, etc. 3. Hispanic Americans in literature. I. Title. pn6725.a38 2009 791.5'352968—dc22 2008049356 The interview with Jaime Hernandez was published previously in Frederick Aldama, Spilling the Beans in Chicanolandia: Conversations with Writers and Artists (University of Texas Press, 2006). For Corina Isabel and with a special thanks to Evan Thomas and Shawn Saler THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Contents Part I: An Overview of Latino Comics . Introduction . So Many Approaches, So Little . . . . Concerned Comics . The Good, Bad, and . . . Beautiful . Mainstreamed Compadres . Slipstreamed Latinos . Latinos Strike Back . Spandexed Latinas, Where Art Thou? . More Superheroes Revealed . Spandex Alternatives . All That Is White Turns Noir . Other à la Modes . Strips with New Stripes              Part II: Brains A-sizzle on Latino Comics . Introduction . Comic, Tragic, Epic—Redux . Proof’s in the Pudding . Getting Emotional . Abracadabra . . . the Mind-Reading Trick . Double Trouble: The Visual and Verbal Narrator . Latinos Conjured Up . Rereading Race and Ethnicity . It’s a Burrito Wrap          Part III: Conversations with the Creators David Alvarez Gus Arriola Hector Cantú Carlos Castellanos     Richard Dominguez Frank Espinosa Roberta Gregory Gilbert Hernandez of Los Bros Hernandez Jaime Hernandez of Los Bros Hernandez Javier Hernandez Jonathan and Joshua Luna of The Luna Brothers Laura Molina Rhode Montijo Rafael Navarro Anthony Oropeza Peter Ramirez Fernando Rodriguez Bobby Rubio Carlos Saldaña Wilfred Santiago Ivan Velez Jr. notes bibliography index viii your brain on latino comics                     Your Brain on Latino Comics

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