Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America |
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Author:
| King, Edward Page, Joanna |
ISBN: | 978-1-911576-46-4 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2018 |
Publisher: | UCL Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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Latin America is experiencing a boom in graphic novels that are innovative in their conceptual play and their reworking of the medium. Drawing on a range of sophisticated work, these graphic novels experiment with questions of the representation of urban space, modes of perception and cognition, and new forms of ethics in the post-human world. As the first book-length study of the topic, this book argues that the graphic novel's emergence in Latin America acts as a uniquely...
More DescriptionLatin America is experiencing a boom in graphic novels that are innovative in their conceptual play and their reworking of the medium. Drawing on a range of sophisticated work, these graphic novels experiment with questions of the representation of urban space, modes of perception and cognition, and new forms of ethics in the post-human world. As the first book-length study of the topic, this book argues that the graphic novel's emergence in Latin America acts as a uniquely powerful force exploring the nature of twenty-first-century subjectivity, emphasizing the ways that humans are bound to their non-human environment.