Comics and Memory in Latin America
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 82458568
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.2307/j.ctt1qnw8fb
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- ISBN
- 9780822964247
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This volume addresses the relationship between comics and memory in Latin America, focusing on how graphic fact and fiction depicted and processed the traumatic experiences of political and social violence that dominated the region in the mid-to-late twentieth century. The editors selected the contributors, who spanned three continents, from papers delivered at a conference held in London in 2012. As well as looking for historical, geographical and textual breadth (the book analysed publications from six different Latin American countries, offering fresh readings of more famous works and new readings of less-well-known comics), the editors chose contributions that explored the theoretical relationship between the comic form and both Latin American memory politics of the past 30 years and also key concepts in memory studies, such as cultural memory and prosthetic memory. Scorer wrote one third of the introduction, focusing on how comics approach issues of memory both in Latin America and beyond, and undertook one third of the editing responsibilities. He is the sole author of Chapter 7 ‘Seven Memory on the Road: American Highways and Prosthetic Pasts in Gonzalo Marinez and Alberto Fuguet’s Road Story’ (pp 197-223), which offers a reading of a Chilean graphic novel in relation to concepts of memory within the 'road trip' genre in the Americas. Aided by his previous research into Argentine cultural production including comics since the 1970s for his book City in Common, he also translated Chapter 3, Isabella Cosse's reading of the social life of the Argentine comic character Mafalda. A translation of the book was released by the Spanish publishing house Cátedra in 2019 as part of its 'Signo e imagen' series and Scorer oversaw one third of the editing responsibilities for that publication.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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