Cultural Imperialism Strikes Back: A South American Symposium

GAGO, SEBASTIAN HORACIO; SALINAS, MARTÍN ALEJANDRO

International Journal of Comic Art

John Lent Editor

Lugar: Philadelphia; Año: 2020 vol. 22 p. 2 - 9

1531-6793

This dossier aims to approach the production, consumption and distribution of comics from some of the theoretical perspectives that characterized the field of communication in Latin America from the end of the 1960s: we refer to concepts such as ´cultural imperialism´, ´dependency theory´ and ´cultural invasion´, but also to other lines of inquiry, related to the previous ones, such as discourse analysis and the sociology of culture practiced in these lands by key authors such as Eliseo Verón and Jesús Martín-Barbero, respectively.Our intention in this proposal is to recover these concepts, some of which were ´abandoned´ for a long time by the Latin American academy and which today seem to be reborn with vigor in different academic centers of the continent, especially in Argentina, Brazil and Chile; in the context of a worldwide revival of authoritarian governments associated with the old doctrines of national security.Thus, we propose research papers that approach the reality of comics from different perspectives but through the lens of these theoretical constructs that have their origin in ideas such as those of Armand Mattelart, Ludovico Silva and Ariel Dorfman, but also in the social theories of culture postulated by Pierre Bourdieu and British cultural studies associated, among others, with Raymond Williams.