Jorge L Catalá Carrasco
Biographic Data
| ID | 205744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jorge L Catalá Carrasco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jorge L Catalá |
| FAMILY NAME | Carrasco |
| SIGNATURE | CARRASCO J L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2211-2471 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
Boom and bust of euphoric narratives
In this article we propose the category of euphoric narratives both to explain the construction of the sculpture ‘Monumento a los hombres del mundial’ (Monument to the Men of the World Cup) in Lima, Peru, but more importantly, to analyse a dynamic which transcends that situation and accounts for a set of cultural changes that have arisen in strongly restructured societies for the purposes of neoliberal policies. The Peruvian national football tea…
Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel - by McAleer, Paul R
Seriously Funny
Latin American Popular Culture
Kantaris, Geoffrey and O'Bryen, Rory (2013) Latin American Popular Culture: Politics, Media, Affect, Tamesis (Woodbridge), xiii + 300 pp. £65.00 hbk. As these editors note, despite recent works, the complexities of ‘the popular’ within Latin Americanists' toolkit, rather than enlightening discussion on Latin American popular culture, have highlighted its exhaustion. This compilation is therefore framed by the need for new lines of enquiry to addr…
Cuba's Wild East. A Literary Geography of Oriente - by Hulme, Peter
The Havana Habit - by Pérez Firmat, Gustavo
From suspicion to recognition? 50 years of comics in Cuba
The article discusses the rich cultural history of Cuban comics from the coming into power of the Revolution in 1959. The piece further explores two parallel discourses: one, that of the high-brow intellectuals worried about mass culture, ideology and national independence, and the other embodied by professionals in the visual arts who set out to create a Cuban national comics industry, using this medium effectively to build a revolutionary consc…
Historias mínimas
From suspicion to recognition? 50 years of comics in Cuba
The article discusses the rich cultural history of Cuban comics from the coming into power of the Revolution in 1959. The piece further explores two parallel discourses: one, that of the high-brow intellectuals worried about mass culture, ideology and national independence, and the other embodied by professionals in the visual arts who set out to create a Cuban national comics industry, using this medium effectively to build a revolutionary consc…
Historias mínimas
From suspicion to recognition? 50 years of comics in Cuba
The article discusses the rich cultural history of Cuban comics from the coming into power of the Revolution in 1959. The piece further explores two parallel discourses: one, that of the high-brow intellectuals worried about mass culture, ideology and national independence, and the other embodied by professionals in the visual arts who set out to create a Cuban national comics industry, using this medium effectively to build a revolutionary consc…
The Havana Habit - by Pérez Firmat, Gustavo
Cuba's Wild East. A Literary Geography of Oriente - by Hulme, Peter
Latin American Popular Culture
Kantaris, Geoffrey and O'Bryen, Rory (2013) Latin American Popular Culture: Politics, Media, Affect, Tamesis (Woodbridge), xiii + 300 pp. £65.00 hbk. As these editors note, despite recent works, the complexities of ‘the popular’ within Latin Americanists' toolkit, rather than enlightening discussion on Latin American popular culture, have highlighted its exhaustion. This compilation is therefore framed by the need for new lines of enquiry to addr…
Seriously Funny
Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel - by McAleer, Paul R
Boom and bust of euphoric narratives
In this article we propose the category of euphoric narratives both to explain the construction of the sculpture ‘Monumento a los hombres del mundial’ (Monument to the Men of the World Cup) in Lima, Peru, but more importantly, to analyse a dynamic which transcends that situation and accounts for a set of cultural changes that have arisen in strongly restructured societies for the purposes of neoliberal policies. The Peruvian national football tea…
Introduction
History (8 works) · History (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Latin Americans (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Citation (3 works)