Growing Up in the Gutter : Diaspora and Comics (Latinx Pop Culture)

Quintana-Vallejo, Ricardo/ Aldama, Frederick Luis (FRW)

University of Arizona Press（2024/05発売）

University of Arizona Press（2024/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 190 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780816553310
• DDC分類 741.535208

Full Description

Growing Up in the Gutter offers new understandings of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives by looking at the genre's growth in stories by and for young BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. Through a careful examination of the genre, Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo analyzes the complex identity formation of first- and subsequent-generation migrant protagonists in globalized rural and urban environments and dissects the implications that these diasporic formative processes have for a growing and popular genre.

While the most traditional iteration of the bildungsroman--the coming-of-age story--follows middle-class male heroes who forge their identities in a process of complex introspection, contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives represent formative processes that fit into, resist, or even disregard narratives of socialization under capitalism, of citizenship, and of nationhood.

Quintana-Vallejo delves into several important themes: how the coming-of-age genre can be used to study adulthood, how displacement and international or global heritage are fundamental experiences, how multidiasporic approaches foreground lived experiences, and how queerness opens narratives of development to the study of adulthood as fundamentally diverse and nonconforming to social norms. Quintana-Vallejo shows how openness enables belonging among chosen families and, perhaps most importantly, freedom to disidentify. And, finally, how contemporary authors writing for the instruction of BIPOC children (and children otherwise affected by diaspora and displacement) use the didactic power of the coming-of-age genre, combined with the hybrid language of graphic narratives, to teach difficult topics in accessible ways.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Daydreaming New Social Maps with the Global Graphic Bildung: A Foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ghosts and Color: Young Women in Anya's Ghost, The Best We Could Do, and Juliet Takes a Breath
2. Police Brutality in Black and White: Invisible Boys in I Am Alfonso Jones and Manuelito
3. Queer/LGBTQ+ Coming-of-Age and the Fantastic: Rebellious Identities in You Brought Me the Ocean, The Magic Fish, and The Low, Low Woods
4. Visual and Textual: Hybrid Childhood in Where Are You From?, Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, Areli Is a Dreamer, and My Two Border Towns
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index