Dreaming Up Worlds: Opportunities for Chicana/o Youth Resistance in "Lowriders In Space"

Rocio Prado analyzes the importance of comic book creation for young Latino audiences and how formal shaping devices used function to clear a space for a new type of storytelling that resists generic and subjective policing;... [ view full abstract ]

Rocio Prado analyzes the importance of comic book creation for young Latino audiences and how formal shaping devices used function to clear a space for a new type of storytelling that resists generic and subjective policing; she will also discuss the importance of the construction of this ideal audience in Lowriders in Space when most comics and books generally for children construct an Anglo ideal audience; these latter narratives that figure Latinidad slip into didacticism and exoticism.