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

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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