Book contents
- Latinx Literature in Transition, 1444–1886
- Latinx Literature In Transition
- Latinx Literature in Transition, 1444–1886
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Transacting
- Part II Transcending
- Part III Transgressing
- Part IV Transcreating
- Chapter 13 Spanish Baroque Theater and the Transatlantic
- Chapter 14 The Epistemic Disobedience of Latinx Shakespeares
- Chapter 15 The Strange Case of a “Lost” Dramatic Performance
- Chapter 16 Mars Is Oggún
- Chapter 17 Drawing the Latinx Migrant Subject
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Chapter 17 - Drawing the Latinx Migrant Subject
From Guaman Poma via Cornejo Polar to Martín López Lam’s Las edades de la rata (2019)
from Part IV - Transcreating
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2025
Book contents
- Latinx Literature in Transition, 1444–1886
- Latinx Literature In Transition
- Latinx Literature in Transition, 1444–1886
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Transacting
- Part II Transcending
- Part III Transgressing
- Part IV Transcreating
- Chapter 13 Spanish Baroque Theater and the Transatlantic
- Chapter 14 The Epistemic Disobedience of Latinx Shakespeares
- Chapter 15 The Strange Case of a “Lost” Dramatic Performance
- Chapter 16 Mars Is Oggún
- Chapter 17 Drawing the Latinx Migrant Subject
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter reads Las edades de la rata (2019), a comic by Peruvian, Valencia-based Martín López Lam within a genealogy of the migrant subject. It proposes that Antonio Cornejo Polar’s ideas on migration as a phenomenon which goes back in time, both aesthetically and conceptually, are useful to think about how recent literature dealing with the contemporary migrant condition can be read as a continuation of long-lasting histories and traditions of displacement. The essay traces a connection between contemporary Latinx comics and Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Nueva corónica y buen gobierno, which Cornejo Polar identifies as one of the first manifestations of this migrant aesthetic. The qilqas of Guaman Poma are thus read alongside a form of our times, the contemporary comic, a medium that is defined by its radical formal heterogeneity and multimodal construction. Ultimately, by reading López Lam’s comic within this framework, the chapter draws a relationship between the many dimensions of the migrant subject, including its Latinx iterations, and the larger processes of coloniality which have shaped the encounter of cultures in Latin America and its diasporas.
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- Latinx Literature in Transition, 1444–1886 , pp. 387 - 426Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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