Comics in Latin America: Circulating Superpowers Between North and South (A08*)

• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: since 2026
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 451897170

The project examines comics as an art form and cultural industry and reconstructs how American superhero comics have been received, appropriated, parodied and transformed in Latin America since the 1960s. The starting point is that these comics were mostly not created with the aim of explicitly intervening in political debates. However, through local perspectives, parodies and fan practices, they became involved in broader debates about US-Latin American relations, cultural hegemony and socio-cultural change.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1512: Intervening Arts
• Applicant Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Stefan Rinke