El Eternauta, Daytripper, and beyond : graphic narrative in Argentina and Brazil / David William Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, David William, author.

Series:

World comics and graphic nonfiction series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--Argentina--History.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Comic books, strips, etc--Brazil--History.

Graphic novels--Argentina--History and criticism.

Graphic novels.

Graphic novels--Brazil--History and criticism.

History.

Argentina.

Brazil.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.

Summary:

"El Eternauta," "Daytripper," and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium's most significant and copious output. Argentine graphic narrative emerged in the 1980s, awakened by Hector Oesterheld's groundbreaking 1950s serial El Eternauta. After Oesterheld was "disappeared" under the military dictatorship, El Eternauta became one of the most important cultural texts of turbulent mid-twentieth-century Argentina. Today its story, set in motion by an extraterrestrial invasion of Buenos Aires, is read as a parable foretelling the "invasion" of Argentine society by a murderous tyranny. Because of El Eternauta, graphic narrative became a major platform for the country's cultural redemocratization. In contrast, Brazil, which returned to democracy in 1985 after decades of dictatorship, produced considerably less analysis of the period of repression in its graphic narratives. In Brazil, serious graphic narratives such as Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba's Daytripper, which explores issues of modernity, globalization, and cross-cultural identity, developed only in recent decades, reflecting Brazilian society's current and ongoing challenges. Besides discussing El Eternauta and Daytripper, David William Foster utilizes case studies of influential works-such as Alberto Breccia and Juan Sasturain's Perramus series, Angelica Freitas and Odyr Bernardi's Guadalupe, and others-to compare the role of graphic narratives in the cultures of both countries, highlighting the importance of Argentina and Brazil as anchors of the production of world-class graphic narrative. Book jacket.

Contents:

Argentina and the forging of a tradition of graphic narrative : military tyranny and redemocratization

Masculinity as privileged human agency in H.ÊG. Oesterheld's El Eternauta

The bar as theatrical heterotopia : José Muñoz and Carlos Sampayo's El Bar de Joe

Resisting tyranny : the perramus figure of Alberto Breccia and Juan Sasturain

The lion in winter : Carlos Sampayo and Francisco Solano Lopez's police commissioner Evaristo

News bulletins from the gender wars : Patricia Breccia's Sin novedad en el frente

Brazil : graphic narrative as postmodern and globalized consciousness

Of death and the road : Rafael Grampa's Mesmo Delivery

The unbearable weight of being : Daniel Galera and Rafael Coutinho's Cachalote

Copacabana and other hellish fantasies : Sandro Lobo and Odyr Berdardi's Copacabana

Days of death : Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba's Daytripper as existential journey

Women's wondrous powers versus the telluric gods in Angélica Freitas and Odyr Bernardi's Guadalupe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Foster, David William, author. El Eternauta, Daytripper, and beyond

ISBN:

9781477310847

1477310843

9781477310854

1477310851

OCLC:

945745583