Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index.
Contents:
Argentina and the forging of a tradition of graphic narrative : military tyranny and redemocratization -- Masculinity as privileged human agency in H.EG. Oesterheld's El Eternauta -- The bar as theatrical heterotopia : Jose Munoz and Carlos Sampayo's El Bar de Joe -- Resisting tyranny : the perramus figure of Alberto Breccia and Juan Sasturain -- The lion in winter : Carlos Sampayo and Francisco Solano Lopez's police commissioner Evaristo -- News bulletins from the gender wars : Patricia Breccia's Sin novedad en el frente -- Brazil : graphic narrative as postmodern and globalized consciousness -- Of death and the road : Rafael Grampa's Mesmo Delivery -- The unbearable weight of being : Daniel Galera and Rafael Coutinho's Cachalote -- Copacabana and other hellish fantasies : Sandro Lobo and Odyr Berdardi's Copacabana -- Days of death : Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba's Daytripper as existential journey -- Women's wondrous powers versus the telluric gods in Angelica Freitas and Odyr Bernardi's Guadalupe.
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