Abstract:The Argentine artist José Muñoz and writer Carlos Sampayo began publishing their Alack Sinner detective comic in the Italian magazine Alterlinus in 1974, after which its stories appeared in French, Spanish, Argentinian, and US publications. Beginning in 2015, the complete Alack Sinner was republished in several languages, winning over a new generation of readers and critics. In the fourth tale, “Vietblues” (1975), Muñoz and Sampayo liberated their storytelling from the limitations of pastiche and formula to challenge the genre conventions of the “private detective” crime narrative. The comic, set in New York City, foregrounds a white protagonist who refuses to partner with a group of Black nationalists intent on tearing down racist power structures. This article shows how the comic explores two definitions of history and political action: an idealistic, subjective, and individualistic one, and a more historical vision predicated on connections between oppressed groups. Muñoz and Sampayo argue for the possibility of interethnic solidarity while documenting their protagonist’s inability to successfully act on that promise. Key to the analysis are Muñoz and Sampayo’s treatment of race and the ways their white protagonist depoliticizes the African American experience by projecting it into himself as a dream state.
{"title":"White Subjectivity and Black Nationalism in José Muñoz and Carlos Sampayo’s Alack Sinner Comic “Vietblues” (1975)","authors":"Christopher Conway","doi":"10.7560/SLAPC3909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/SLAPC3909","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Argentine artist José Muñoz and writer Carlos Sampayo began publishing their Alack Sinner detective comic in the Italian magazine Alterlinus in 1974, after which its stories appeared in French, Spanish, Argentinian, and US publications. Beginning in 2015, the complete Alack Sinner was republished in several languages, winning over a new generation of readers and critics. In the fourth tale, “Vietblues” (1975), Muñoz and Sampayo liberated their storytelling from the limitations of pastiche and formula to challenge the genre conventions of the “private detective” crime narrative. The comic, set in New York City, foregrounds a white protagonist who refuses to partner with a group of Black nationalists intent on tearing down racist power structures. This article shows how the comic explores two definitions of history and political action: an idealistic, subjective, and individualistic one, and a more historical vision predicated on connections between oppressed groups. Muñoz and Sampayo argue for the possibility of interethnic solidarity while documenting their protagonist’s inability to successfully act on that promise. Key to the analysis are Muñoz and Sampayo’s treatment of race and the ways their white protagonist depoliticizes the African American experience by projecting it into himself as a dream state.","PeriodicalId":53864,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47503785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Ex-votos are the representation of a struggle and also a spiritual practice. Historically, pictorial ex-votos depict an alleged miracle in an iconic manner. When the struggle is migration,...
{"title":"Ex-voto: Folk, Outsider, Transnational—Debating Definitions","authors":"Lorella Di Gregorio","doi":"10.7560/SLAPC3904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/SLAPC3904","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Ex-votos are the representation of a struggle and also a spiritual practice. Historically, pictorial ex-votos depict an alleged miracle in an iconic manner. When the struggle is migration,...","PeriodicalId":53864,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41931923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article examines how, in Rosaura a las diez (Mario Soffici, 1958)—made as the Argentine studio system production model was in a crisis that would prove terminal—the productive tension between classical conventions of genre and gendered figure lighting is used to visually enact a shift in the representation of the title character from a female object of male gazes to a socially situated migrant who inhabits the social margins of a modern, complex Buenos Aires. The film’s plot employs multiple focalizers who retell the story, resulting in events being narrated several times, each of which expresses through its mise-en-scène the intense emotions and desires of each narrator-focalizer toward Rosaura, generating contradictions that are eventually resolved by a final sequence focalized by the title character. In this way, the film takes part in a wider, though partial, shift in Argentine cinema away from the classical conventions that privileged escapist spectacle, to instead propose an epistemological regrounding after the earlier conflicting subjectivities had undermined the usual credibility of the filmic image, and points toward the concerns with the social margins of the more independently produced cinema to come, known as the nuevo cine.
摘要：本文探讨了如何，在《Rosaura a las diez》（Mario Soffeci，1958）中，阿根廷工作室系统的制作模式正处于一场危机之中，这场危机将被证明是终结的。经典的流派惯例和性别化的人物照明之间的生产性张力被用来在视觉上实现标题人物形象的转变，从男性凝视的女性对象转变为居住在现代复杂的布宜诺斯艾利斯的社会边缘。这部电影的情节采用了多个聚焦者来复述故事，导致事件被讲述了好几次，每一次都通过其主题表达了每个聚焦者对罗苏拉的强烈情感和欲望，产生了矛盾，最终通过主角聚焦的最后一个序列来解决。通过这种方式，这部电影参与了阿根廷电影的一次更广泛的、尽管是局部的转变，从传统的逃避现实的惯例中解脱出来，转而在早期相互冲突的主观主义破坏了电影形象的通常可信度之后，提出了一种认识论的重新定义，并指出了人们对未来更独立制作的新电影的社会边缘的担忧。
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Abstract:Paradoxically, in Colombia, whose past and present time are marked by the continuous waves of violence, the crime or noir fiction is a marginal sub-genre. In fact, it has never appeared in its orthodox form in Colombian literature. The genre, which for some decades has served as a recurrent instrument to focus on the complicated and violent reality of modern societies, in contemporary Colombian fiction is subject to constant reinvention and perpetual hybridization. One of the authors recognized within this field of artistic production is Mario Mendoza (1964). The article studies his novel Lady Massacre (2013) with the aim of observing how Mendoza manages the traditional ingredients of the crime fiction (the crime, the detective, the investigation, the resolution of the enigma, and the social background) to reinvent the genre in the Colombian context.
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Abstract:Set in present-day Buenos Aires, the film Sudor frío (2010, dir. Adrián García Bogliano) features two former agents of the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional who continue to imprison zombified abductees from the Dirty War of the 1970s and 1980s in their decrepit house of horrors, where they also capture and torture newer generations of Argentine youth who are disconnected from the historical violence of the dictatorship and are supposedly disenchanted with politics in general. Stunted in their normative development as young citizens toward traditional benchmarks like employment, home ownership, and procreation, their suspension in time can be read as zombiesque, allowing for the blurring of differences between generations. The distinct ways in which they have become frozen in time hold the potential to engender a kind of temporal critique that calls into question not only the national progress that has been made since the return to democracy, but also the prescriptive timeline that defines individual progress according to the logic of the neoliberal economy left intact since the last dictatorship.
摘要：电影《Sudor frío》（2010年，导演Adrián García Bogliano）以现在的布宜诺斯艾利斯为背景，讲述了国家重组进程的两名前特工，他们继续将20世纪70年代和80年代肮脏战争中被僵尸绑架的人监禁在他们破旧的恐怖之家中，在那里，他们还逮捕并折磨新一代的阿根廷青年，他们与独裁统治的历史暴力脱节，据说对整个政治不再抱有幻想。作为年轻公民，他们对就业、住房所有权和生育等传统基准的规范发展感到震惊，他们在时间上的暂停可以被解读为僵尸式的，从而模糊了几代人之间的差异。它们被时间冻结的不同方式有可能产生一种时间批判，这种批判不仅对回归民主以来取得的国家进步提出质疑，而且对根据上一次独裁以来保持不变的新自由主义经济逻辑定义个人进步的规定时间线提出质疑。
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Abstract:This article explores violence against Colombian women in Víctor Gaviria’s 2016 film La mujer del animal. The plight of women comes into view in cases of domestic abuse, the apathy of an indifferent society, and in popular language that condones gendered aggression. The raw depiction of relentless oppression in La mujer del animal urges reflection on the normalization of mistreatment and societal collaboration. Rather than putting all blame on the tormentor himself, Gaviria’s film condemns the complicit community as the real evil responsible for forging intergenerational patterns of abusive behaviors. Moreover, the article argues that Gaviria’s mode of presentation—a realistic portrayal of violence deemed excessive by some commentators—is dismissed by them in the same way real-life gender violence continues to be ignored by institutions and communities alike.
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{"title":"Kurt Hollander’s Joyous Life and the Architecture of Sex","authors":"H. Campbell","doi":"10.7560/slapc3809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/slapc3809","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53864,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45566173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De héroe a superhéroe: Encantos y desencantos del milagro económico chileno en El reemplazante","authors":"M. Jiménez","doi":"10.7560/slapc3806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/slapc3806","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53864,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44369181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article looks at “Torres gemelas,” a YouTube video by Ecuadorian indigenous musician Delfín Quishpe, which went viral in the late 2000s, reaching millions of views. I argue that this video, and associated phenomena, can be considered a paradigmatic example of how some contemporary indigenous creators are radically redefining their relationship with globalized and localized cultures in a context of unprecedented technological change and time-space compression. By refusing to cleave to expectations about Amerindian media production as political and collective or as an expression of ancestral and traditional indigeneity, these Andean creators are challenging established views regarding how they should participate in modernity and the digital world. At the same time, white audiences’ consumption of Delfín’s video (and similar media products) as kitsch (or “bad taste”) also points toward the deployment of racist discourse in the definition of indigenous cultural production—particularly when there is a deliberate discrepancy with mainstream society’s expectations about Amerindianness. Rather than arguing against the kitsch nature of “Torres gemelas” and comparable media productions, the article proposes to critically appropriate the term in order to address how these new cultural products are subject to symbolic violence, and yet at the same time have the potential to articulate anti-racist strategies.
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Abstract:This article examines the case of La Palmada en la Frente (1970), a one-issue political cartoon magazine, drawn and written by cartoonist Lugoze and produced in the context of a scare campaign against the possible election of the socialist Salvador Allende (1969–1970). This ephemeral document belonged to a larger group of publications that used humor and cartoons as ideological weapons. An extensive examination of this source allows a recast of the relationship between popular culture and politics in the Chilean experience of the global sixties. This essay argues that political cartoons work as a portal through which to understand behaviors, social problems, prejudices, fears, stereotypes, and myths that can enforce and challenge the study of Latin American popular culture and the sixties.
摘要：本文探讨了《La Palmada en La French》（1970）的案例，这是一本由漫画家卢戈泽绘制和撰写的一期政治漫画杂志，是在反对社会主义者萨尔瓦多·阿连德（1969–1970）可能当选的恐慌运动背景下制作的。这份短暂的文件属于一个更大的出版物群体，这些出版物将幽默和漫画作为意识形态武器。对这一来源进行广泛的研究，可以在全球60年代的智利经历中重新塑造流行文化和政治之间的关系。本文认为，政治漫画是一个了解行为、社会问题、偏见、恐惧、刻板印象和神话的门户，这些都可以加强和挑战对拉丁美洲流行文化和60年代的研究。
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