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El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond - Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil (Hardcover)
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El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond - Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil (Hardcover)
Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
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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.
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