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Book Latin America in Caricature

Download or read book Latin America in Caricature written by John J. Johnson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Not many readers will thank the author as he deserves, for he has told us more about ourselves than we perhaps wish to know,” predicted Latin America in Books of Latin America in Caricature—an exploration of more than one hundred years of hemispheric relations through political cartoons collected from leading U.S. periodicals from the 1860s through 1980. The cartoons are grouped according to recurring themes in diplomacy and complementing visual imagery. Each one is accompanied by a lengthy explanation of the incident portrayed, relating the drawing to public opinion of the day. Johnson’s thoughtful introduction and the comments that precede the individual chapters provide essential background for understanding U.S. attitudes and policies toward Latin America.

Book The U S  and Latin America in Cartoons

Download or read book The U S and Latin America in Cartoons written by Edward L. Shaw and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Latino USA

Download or read book Latino USA written by Ilan Stavans and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latino USA represents the culmination of Ilan Stavans's lifelong determination to meet the challenges of capturing the joys, nuances, and multiple dimensions of Latino culture within the context of the English language. In this cartoon history of Latinos, Stavans seeks to combine the solemnity of so-called "serious literature" and history with the inherently theatrical and humorous nature of the comics. The range of topics includes Columbus, Manifest Destiny, the Alamo, William Carlos Williams, Desi Arnaz, West Side Story, Castro, Guevera, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Neruda, GarcíMáuez, the Mariel Boatlift, and Selena. Stavans represents Hispanic civilization as a fiesta of types, archetypes, and stereotypes. These "clichéigurines" include a toucan (displayed regularly in books by GarcíMáuez, Allende, and others), the beloved Latino comedian Cantinflas (known as "the Hispanic Charlie Chaplin"), a masked wrestler, and Captain America. These multiple, at times contradictory voices, each narrating various episodes of Latino history from a unique perspective, combine to create a carnivalesque rhythm, democratic and impartial. For, as Stavans states, "History, of course, is a kaleidoscope where nothing is absolute." Latino USA, like the history it so entertainingly relates, is a dazzling kaleidoscope of irreverence, wit, subversion, anarchy, politics, humanism, celebration, and serious and responsible history.

Book Cartooning in Latin America

Download or read book Cartooning in Latin America written by John A. Lent and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2005 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cartoons and comics have played important roles in the political and social processes of Latin America for more than a century. This book coalesces, for the first time in one volume, aspects of comic art of the entire region, capturing historical backgrounds, documenting trends, problems and situations of comic art in contemporary settings, and profiling cartoonists, comics characters, titles and genres." "Ten countries of Central and South America and the Spanish Caribbean are dealt with in separate chapters. Comic art forms/media that are subjects of chapters are animation, caricature, comic books, comic strips, humor magazines, and political cartoons. Approaches include historical and contemporary overviews, cartoonist profiles, and comics/cartoon character analyses. Authors of the chapters represent some of the most knowledgeable individuals in Latin American comic art."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Catalan Cartoons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rhiannon McGlade
  • Publisher : University of Wales Press
  • Release : 2016-02-15
  • ISBN : 1783168064
  • Pages : 415 pages

Download or read book Catalan Cartoons written by Rhiannon McGlade and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First ever English language book on 20th century cartooning and humour production in Catalonia Offers both broad history as well as close analysis of cartoon examples of the time Engages with academic debates on the power of humour, humour and identity and applies them to the Catalan context Offers contextualisation of the Catalan cartooning tradition within a broader socio-political context of Catalonia and Spain

Book Redrawing The Nation

Download or read book Redrawing The Nation written by H. L'Hoeste and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the role of comics in the formation of a modern sense of nationhood in Latin America and the rise of a collective Latino identity in the USA. It is one of the first attempts - in English and from a cultural studies perspective - to cover Latin/o American comics with a fully continental scope. Specific cases include cultural powerhouses like Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, as well as the production of lesser-known industries, like Chile, Cuba, and Peru.

Book Comics and Memory in Latin America

Download or read book Comics and Memory in Latin America written by Jorge Catalá Carrasco and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contributors, from a variety of disciplines including literary theory, cultural studies, and history, explore topics including national identity construction, narratives of resistance to colonialism and imperialism, the construction of revolutionary traditions, and the legacies of authoritarianism and political violence. The chapters offer a background history of comics and graphic novels in the region, and survey a range of countries and artists such as Joaquin Salvador Lavado (a.k.a Quino), Hector G. Oesterheld, and Juan Acevedo. They also highlight the unique ability of this art and literary form to succinctly render memory. In sum, this volume offers in-depth analysis of an understudied, yet key literary genre in Latin American memory studies and documents the essential role of comics during the transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Book Acclaimed Press Coverage of Latin American Countries

Download or read book Acclaimed Press Coverage of Latin American Countries written by Heinz-Dietrich Fischer and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains award-winning articles and pictures from various Latin American countries. It tells stories about German Nazi members in Uruguay, the dictatorial Peron regime in Argentina, the brutal Batista Government in Cuba and Fidel Castro, facets of the Civil War in El Salvador, politics and poverty on Haiti, and the effects of drug corruption in Mexico. (Series: Pulitzer Prize Panorama, Vol. 16) [Subject: Latin American Studies, Politics, History, Media Studies]

Book Handbook of Latin American Popular Culture

Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Popular Culture written by Harold E. Hinds and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985-11-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors have put together a solid overview of ten areas of popular culture in Latin America. The contributors have skillfully overcome a variety of research obstacles as well as the imposing problem of dealing with many countries. Each contributor has expertly assembled scientific research, intelligent observations, and well-thought-out conclusions to offer a reliable, sophisticated study of his particular area. Popular music, sports, television, popular religion, comics, photonovels, film, newspapers, cartoons, and festivals and carnivals are covered in this much-needed volume.

Book The United States and Latin America

Download or read book The United States and Latin America written by Jeffrey Taffet and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States and Latin America presents a complex and dynamic view of the relationship between the United States and Latin America. Through a combination of targeted, thematic chapters and a range of freshly-translated documents, Jeffrey F. Taffet and Dustin Walcher illuminate the historical continuities and conflicts that have defined the vital relationship. Giving equal weight to Latin American and United States voices, this text provides an essential collection of primary sources for students and scholars, and is an indispensable touchstone for anyone interested in the histories of the United States and Latin America.

Book Latin American Online Animation

Download or read book Latin American Online Animation written by Oslavia Danaé Linares Martínez and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latin American children of the late 1990s and 2000s grew up watching cartoons, just like those decades before; however, for the first time, many of these cartoons were being made by them. That was only the beginning... Benefiting from new digital animation technology and Internet availability as much as from a renewed sense of what cartoons were and for whom, online animation became one of the earliest and most popular forms of online media in Latin America and the world. And yet, their popularity is relatively confined to the Internet and their academic study remains scarce. This thesis aims to remediate this absence and to provide a base from which to give a better account of Latin American online animation. In doing so, it can improve our understanding of other online media's connection with socio-economic, technological, ideological, and aesthetic imperatives. I highlight the role of economic class and cultural imperialism in online animation's aesthetic and contents, consider the role of cable networks in both shaping these tastes and offering a precedent for online platforms like YouTube, and review the technological limitations leading to an online animation vernacular (regional and global). I focus on this vernacular's formal traits as a necessary first step to approach online animation and potentially other media. Ultimately, I provide a socio-economic and techno-historical context for Latin American online animation's visual culture and its media and geo-cultural specificity. This research is all the more necessary in the face of the impermanence of online media.

Book Columba

    Book Details:
  • Author : Colm Regan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Columba written by Colm Regan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book It s the Image that Counts

Download or read book It s the Image that Counts written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Latino USA  Revised Edition

Download or read book Latino USA Revised Edition written by Ilan Stavans and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural critic and acclaimed author Ilan Stavans captures the joys, nuances, and multiple dimensions of Latino culture within the context of the English language. Latino USA, like the history it so entertainingly relates, is a dazzling kaleidoscope of irreverence, wit, subversion, anarchy, politics, humanism, celebration, and serious and responsible history.

Book Lalo Alcaraz

    Book Details:
  • Author : Héctor D. Fernández L’Hoeste
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2017-02-27
  • ISBN : 1496811402
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book Lalo Alcaraz written by Héctor D. Fernández L’Hoeste and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the controversy surrounding immigration and border control, the work of California cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz (b. 1964) has delivered a resolute Latino viewpoint. Of Mexican descent, Alcaraz fights for Latino rights through his creativity, drawing political commentary as well as underlining how Latinos confront discrimination on a daily basis. Through an analysis of Alcaraz's early editorial cartooning and his strips for La Cucaracha, the first nationally syndicated, political Latino daily comic strip, author Héctor D. Fernández L'Hoeste shows the many ways Alcaraz's art attests to the community's struggles. Alcaraz has proven controversial with his satirical, sharp commentary on immigration and other Latino issues. What makes Alcaraz's work so potent? Fernández L'Hoeste marks the artist's insistence on never letting go of what he views as injustice against Latinos, the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States. Indeed, his comics predict a key moment in the future of the United States--that time when a racial plurality will steer the country, rather than a white majority and its monocultural norms. Fernández L'Hoeste's study provides an accessible, comprehensive view into the work of a cartoonist who deserves greater recognition, not just because Alcaraz represents the injustice and inequity prevalent in our society, but because as both a US citizen and a member of the Latino community, his ability to stand in, between, and outside two cultures affords him the clarity and experience necessary to be a powerful voice.

Book Introduction to Chile

Download or read book Introduction to Chile written by Chris Welch and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: