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Dreamlands, Border Zones, and Spaces of Exception: Comics and Graphic Narratives on the US-Mexico Border

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2020). Dreamlands, Border Zones, and Spaces of Exception: Comics and Graphic Narratives on the US-Mexico Border. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 35(2), pp. 383-403. doi: 10.1080/08989575.2020.1741187

Abstract

This article explores the connections between the spaces of exception along national borders and the bordered architecture of graphic narratives in Charles Bowden and Alice Leora Briggs' Dreamland: The Way Out of Juárez (2010) and Jon Sack's La Lucha: The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico (2015).

Publication Type: Article
Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies on 22 May 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/08989575.2020.1741187.
Publisher Keywords: US-Mexico border, Juárez, graphic narrative, refugee comics
Subjects: J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States)
J Political Science > JL Political institutions (America except United States)
J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
J Political Science > JZ International relations
N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Departments: School of Communication & Creativity > Media, Culture & Creative Industries > English, Publishing & Creative Writing
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