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[Commlist] RLEC on "Wonder Comics. Redrawing Gender in Ibero-American Graphic Narratives"

Sat Dec 23 13:40:56 GMT 2023





LUSOPHONE JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES (RLEC) ON "WONDER COMICS. REDRAWING GENDER IN IBERO-AMERICAN GRAPHIC NARRATIVES"

The new Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies (RLEC) on "Wonder Comics. Redrawing Gender in Ibero-American Graphic Narratives", edited by Nicoletta Mandolini, Cristina Álvares e María Márquez López, has just been published.

According to the editors, "this thematic issue is a space to assign visibility and critical legitimisation to Ibero-American feminist and queer comics and graphic novels". They also mention that "it is also a place to discuss in detail the strengths and limitations that characterise them, both in terms of adherence to the complexity of gender-related theorisations and their access to local and transnational dissemination". Not by coincidence, this is the very objective of the working group "Autoras, Investigadoras y Editoras de Cómic" that two of the editors of this special issue, María Márquez López and Nicoletta Mandolini, convene in the context of the Cost Action project iCOn-MICs. The work undertaken for this publication is, in light of this, one of the outputs of the iCOn-MICs project. Moreover, the inclusion of this special issue in the editorial work undertaken by Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies gave the opportunity to deepen our understanding of the most neglected graphic narrative productions among Ibero-American criticisms: those arising from the Lusophone cultural space. The selection of articles and reviews that this thematic issue proposes reflect these choices. This thematic issue aims precisely at this exercise of critical redirection by investigating the role of gender in the production, consumption and circulation of graphic narratives created in the Ibero-American context, a vast and heterogeneous container of cultural spaces linked by common historical, linguistic and political traits. In Ibero-American countries (Spain, Portugal and the vast array of countries of Latin America), comics have traditionally represented a significant share of the cultural productions and communication modes. In recent years, graphic narratives' popularity has reached new heights in these countries, most of the times capitalising on an already existing propensity to treat comics as a crucial medium in the context of national cultural production (let us think, for example, at the historical importance of the Argentinian historieta, but also at the political relevance that HQs had throughout the years of the dictatorship and post-dictatorship in Brazil). This is coupled with the emergence of advanced and, in some cases, globally successful feminist movements and theories on the issue of gender discrimination and violence, which have often found in the comics medium a friendly ally that has facilitated the dissemination of feminist and queer political messages.

For further information: https://www.cecs.uminho.pt/en/publicacao/bd-maravilha-redefinindo-o-genero-nas-narrativas-graficas-ibero-americanas/
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