[Commlist] Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America- open access

UCL Press is delighted to announce a new open access book that is likely 
to be of interest to list subscribers: ‘Comics Beyond the Page in Latin 
America’, edited by James Scorer.
Download it free from https://bit.ly/3idV7zr

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Book title: Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America
Editor: James Scorer
Download free: https://bit.ly/3idV7zr

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‘Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America’ is a cutting-edge study of the 
expanding worlds of Latin American comics. Despite lack of funding and 
institutional support, not since the mid-twentieth century have comics 
in the region been so dynamic, so diverse and so engaged with pressing 
social and cultural issues. Comics are being used as essential tools in 
debates about, for example, digital cultures, gender identities and 
political disenfranchisement.

Rather than analysing the current boom in comics by focusing just on the 
printed text, however, this book looks at diverse manifestations of 
comics ‘beyond the page’. Contributors explore digital comics and social 
media networks; comics as graffiti and stencil art in public spaces; 
comics as a tool for teaching architecture or processing social trauma; 
and the consumption and publishing of comics as forms of shaping 
national, social and political identities.

Bringing together authors from across Latin America and beyond, and 
covering examples from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and 
Uruguay, the book sets out a panoramic vision of Latin American comics, 
whether in terms of scholarly contribution, geographical diversity or 
interdisciplinary methodologies.

‘Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America’ demonstrates the importance of 
studying how comics circulate in all manner of ways beyond print media. 
It also reminds us of the need to think about the creative role of 
comics in societies with less established comics markets than in Europe, 
the US and Asia.

Download free: https://bit.ly/3idV7zr

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