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This event has been cross-posted from the Center for Latin American Studies website. Isis Barra Costa, Assistant Professor Contemporary Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese with support from Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros, Latin American, Iberian and Latino/a Studies Librarian. This lecture is presented in partnership with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.Įvent Coordinators: Dr. Department of Education Title VI grants for The Ohio State University’s Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, East Asian Studies Center and the Area Studies Department and the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum of University Libraries. The Global Comics Lecture Series is sponsored by the U.S. The event is free and open to the public. This event will offer English/Portuguese simultaneous translation, provided by Raquel Luciana de Souza and made possible by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. His epic novel Angola Janga: uma história dos Palmares, recently published in the US, narrates the rise and fall of Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil’s largest quilombo community.

Edition of International Materials in 2018.

D’Salete’s acclaimed graphic novels Cumbe (Run for It) and Angola Janga (Kingdom of Runaway Slaves) explore the history of slavery and struggles for freedom in colonial Brazil. Cumbe was the recipient of the prestigious Eisner Award for the Best U.S. University Libraries’ International and Area Studies Department, in partnership with the Center for Latin American Studies’ Afro-Brazilian Arts and Activism Lecture Series, will present the next installment of the Global Comics Lecture Series: an invited talk by Brazilian comic artist, illustrator and professor Marcelo D’Salete. Add to Calendar 14:20:00 15:40:00 Global Comics Lecture Series: The Making of 'Angola Janga' and 'Run for It' with Marcelo D'Salete

Angola Janga by Marcelo d'Salete