Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Contextualising the Debate: The European Comic Tradition and the Question of Context
- 2 Gustavo Sainz’s La princesa del Palacio de Hierro: Comedy and the Female Character in Transnational Mexico
- 3 Comic Identity and Cultural Exile in Bryce Echenique’s La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña
- 4 Black Comedy and Identity Loss in Fernando Vallejo’s La virgen de los sicarios: On the Road to Dystopia
- 5 Jaime Bayly’s La noche es virgen: Comic Queer Identities in the Era of Transnationalism
- Utopia, Comedy and Latin American Utopianism: Is This Really the End?
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Contextualising the Debate: The European Comic Tradition and the Question of Context
- 2 Gustavo Sainz’s La princesa del Palacio de Hierro: Comedy and the Female Character in Transnational Mexico
- 3 Comic Identity and Cultural Exile in Bryce Echenique’s La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña
- 4 Black Comedy and Identity Loss in Fernando Vallejo’s La virgen de los sicarios: On the Road to Dystopia
- 5 Jaime Bayly’s La noche es virgen: Comic Queer Identities in the Era of Transnationalism
- Utopia, Comedy and Latin American Utopianism: Is This Really the End?
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2015