El Eternauta, Daytripper, and beyond : graphic narrative in Argentina and Brazil / David William Foster.
| Author/creator | Foster, David William author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016. |
| Description | xiii, 158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | World comics and graphic nonfiction series World comics and graphic nonfiction series. ^A1325661 |
| 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. |
| Abstract | This book 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 Héctor 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 Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá’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 -- Provided by the publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index. |
| Language | Text in English. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Foster, David William. Eternauta, Daytripper, and beyond. First edition. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016 9781477310861 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2016012909 |
| ISBN | 9781477310854 |
| ISBN | 9781477310847 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1477310843 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1477310851 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (library e-book) |
| ISBN | (library e-book) |
| ISBN | (non-library e-book) |
| ISBN | (non-library e-book) |
| Other class# | Z UA380.8 F812et |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN6790.A7 F67 2016 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |