Going "Against the Grain": The (Re)configuration of Argentine Comics as a Field of Restricted Production in the Face of Increasing Globalization, 2001–2019.
The present article poses that twenty-first-century Argentine comics that win awards and have earned a (modest) place in cultural institutions but struggle to sell a few hundred copies are not the result of a downfall. They are instead the achievement of a long symbolic operation that deliberately g...
| Published in: | Studies in Latin American Popular Culture Vol. 43; pp. 129 - 154 |
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University of Texas Press
2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=188233561&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 188233561 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 07309139 LPC jtl: Studies in Latin American Popular Culture issn: 07309139 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2025 vid: 43 pid: 519 pub: University of Texas Press artinfo: ui: 188233561 ppf: 129 ppct: 25 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 338KB tig: atl: Going "Against the Grain": The (Re)configuration of Argentine Comics as a Field of Restricted Production in the Face of Increasing Globalization, 2001–2019. aug: au: Labra, Diego su: Globalization Deindustrialization Industrial capacity Cultural industries Cultural capital sug: subj: Globalization Deindustrialization Industrial capacity Cultural industries Cultural capital ab: The present article poses that twenty-first-century Argentine comics that win awards and have earned a (modest) place in cultural institutions but struggle to sell a few hundred copies are not the result of a downfall. They are instead the achievement of a long symbolic operation that deliberately goes "against the grain of market trends" to (re)construct an autonomous comic field in the wake of the demise of the last "golden age" publisher. Through two sets of intertwined and simultaneous processes (deindustrialization and "shelfification," and patrimonialization and state patronage), the medium became less an object of cultural commerce and more one of culture, which is supposed to be preserved, fostered, and endowed. By the nature of said processes, anchored by a doxa that pitted national versus foreign and art versus market, a new generation of artists, mostly women, were at first left out of the historically masculinized field that frowned on the influence of Japanese manga in their work. In conclusion, Argentina's case offers a concrete example of the effect that an increasingly globalized trade has on a cultural industry at the periphery and the agency with which local actors adapt (or not) to those asymmetrical circumstances. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Studies in Latin American Popular Culture is the property of University of Texas Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Studies in Latin American Popular Culture holder: University of Texas Press dt: @attributes: year: 2025 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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