Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Foster, David William

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.

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Details

Description

xiii, 158 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

World comics and graphic nonfiction series

Uniform Title

World comics and graphic nonfiction series.

Subjects

• Comic books, strips, etc
• Graphic novels
• Comic books, strips, etc > Argentina > History
• History
• Argentina
• Graphic novels > Brazil > History and criticism
• Graphic novels > Argentina > History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Brazil
• Comic books, strips, etc > Brazil > History

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

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

Language (note)

• Text in English.

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.

Call Number

JFE 19-480

ISBN

• 9781477310847
• 1477310843
• 9781477310854
• 1477310851

LCCN

2016012909

OCLC

945745583

Author

Foster, David William, author.

Title

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

Publisher

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

World comics and graphic nonfiction series

World comics and graphic nonfiction series.

Bibliography

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

Language

Text in English.

Other Form:

Online version: Foster, David William. Eternauta, Daytripper, and beyond. First edition. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016 9781477310861 (DLC) 2016015679

Sudoc No.

Z UA380.8 F812et txdocs

Research Call Number

JFE 19-480