Sketching the U.S.-Mexico border. Five approaches through graphic narrative and comics

Diana Castilleja

doi:10.18239/ocnos_2023.22.1.332

Sketching the U.S.-Mexico border. Five approaches through graphic narrative and comics

Diana Castilleja

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Abstract

In the current context of deep polarisation and politicisation over migration issues, we propose to analyse five comics and graphic narratives that contribute to make visible the forgotten voices and spaces regarding Latin American migration to the United States. Emphasis is placed on the role of generic hybridity in granting and reinforcing the legitimacy of the telling of personal and collective stories through the insertion of autobiography, testimony, documentary, western or science fiction, among others. Corpus chosen: Migrant: The Journey of a Mexican Worker (Mateo & Martínez, [2011] 2014), Rendez-Vous in Phoenix (Sandoval, 2016), The Scar. Graphic Reportage from the US-Mexico Border (Ferraris & Chiocca, 2019), Barrier (Vaughan, Martín & Vicente, 2018) and Ana (Arriaga & Ramos, 2021), shows the multiple possibilities offered by these graphic narratives, which are no longer created purely for entertainment, but to contribute significantly to the configuration of a socially committed discourse.

Original language	English
Article number	1
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	Ocnos. Revista de estudios sobre lectura
Volume	22
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18239/ocnos_2023.22.1.332
Publication status	Published - Jan 2023

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© 2023 Centro de Estudios de PromociÃ³n de la Lectura y Literatura Infantil, Universidad de Castilla-La Manc. All rights reserved.

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Keywords

Comics
Border Mexico-USA
Latin American Literature
Migration

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Sketching the U.S.-Mexico border. Five approaches through graphic narrative and comics

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Los cómics como herramienta de la discursividad histórica, literaria y social

Cost Action project: iCOn-MICs. ‘Investigation on Comics and Graphic Novels from the Iberian Cultural Area’ (External organisation)

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Los cómics como herramienta de la discursividad histórica, literaria y social

Cost Action project: iCOn-MICs. ‘Investigation on Comics and Graphic Novels from the Iberian Cultural Area’ (External organisation)

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