{"product_id":"latinx-superheroes-in-mainstream-comics-frederick-luis-aldama-9780816537082","title":"Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics","description":"Winner of the 2018 Eisner Award Winner for Best Scholarly\/Academic Work \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Whether good or evil, beautiful or ugly, smart or downright silly, able-bodied or differently abled, gay or straight, male or female, young or old, Latinx superheroes in mainstream comic book stories are few and far between. It is as if finding the Latinx presence in the DC and Marvel worlds requires activation of superheroic powers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLatinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics\u003c\/i\u003e blasts open barriers with a swift kick. It explores deeply and systematically the storyworld spaces inhabited by brown superheroes in mainstream comic book storyworlds: print comic books, animation, TV, and film. It makes visible and lets loose the otherwise occluded and shackled. Leaving nothing to chance, it sheds light on how creators (authors, artists, animators, and directors) make storyworlds that feature Latinos\/as, distinguishing between those that we can and should evaluate as well done and those we can and should evaluate as not well done. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The foremost expert on Latinx comics, Frederick Luis Aldama guides us through the full archive of all the Latinx superheros in comics since the 1940s. Aldama takes us where the superheroes live--the barrios, the hospitals, the school rooms, the farm fields--and he not only shows us a view to the Latinx content, sometimes deeply embedded, but also provokes critical inquiry into the way storytelling formats distill and reconstruct real Latinos\/as. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Thoroughly entertaining but seriously undertaken, \u003ci\u003eLatinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics\u003c\/i\u003e allows us to truly see how superhero comic book storyworlds are willfully created in ways that make new our perception, thoughts, and feelings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frederick Luis Aldama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816537089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816537082\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Frederick Luis Aldama","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947330699519,"sku":"9780816537082","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_50a4557d-c997-47bb-aec4-fdd3e998de88.jpg?v=1681518084","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/latinx-superheroes-in-mainstream-comics-frederick-luis-aldama-9780816537082","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}