We are posting some updates re. research activities by members of the University of Manchester’s Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This time, from Dr James Scorer, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies and Associate Director for Research – CIDRAL at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures.
I have been continuing work on Latin American comics, publishing an article on neoextractivism in two graphic works, Paying the Land by Maltese-American Joe Sacco and La guerra por el agua by Nelly Luna Amancio and Jesús Cossio, in the online journal IdeAs: Idées d’Amériques. I also recently finished the manuscript for a book on Latin American comics, provisionally entitled Transgressing the Frame: Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century. Otherwise, I was involved in workshops take took place in Peru as part of the AHRC-funded project Comics and Race in Latin America. Working with Espacio los Únicos and Sara La Torre we produced a collective zine that can be downloaded. Elsewhere on the project website you can find information about our project artists, our collaborators, and some written reflections on racial identities in Latin American comics.
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