Graphic Indigeneity - Aldama, Frederick Luis
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Acclaimed comics scholar Frederick Luis Aldama shines light on how mainstream comics have clumsily distilled and reconstructed Indigenous identities and experiences. This book emphasizes how Indigenous comic artists are themselves clearing new visual-verbal narrative spaces for articulating more complex histories, and narratives of self.

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Acclaimed comics scholar Frederick Luis Aldama shines light on how mainstream comics have clumsily distilled and reconstructed Indigenous identities and experiences. This book emphasizes how Indigenous comic artists are themselves clearing new visual-verbal narrative spaces for articulating more complex histories, and narratives of self.
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Frederick Luis Aldama, also known as Professor Latinx, is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and affiliate faculty in radio-TV-film at the University of Texas, Austin, as well as adjunct professor and Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University. He is author of over forty-eight books and has received the International Latino Book Award and an Eisner Award for Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics. He is editor or coeditor of nine academic press book series, including Biographix with University Press of Mississippi. He is creator of the first documentary on the history of Latinx superheroes and founder and director of UT's Latinx Pop Lab. His Spanish translation and animation film adaptation of his children's book The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie (2020) will be released in the fall of 2021. He is also editor of Jeff Smith: Conversations, published by University Press of Mississippi.