Gerardo Cruz Presents at UNAM
Gerardo Cruz, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, presented a talk titled “Postnationalism and Posthumanism in the Graphic Novel La burbuja de Bertold” at the 2nd International Congress of Contemporary Latin American Narratives, organized by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City (February 26-28).
Gerardo’s talk focused on the graphic novel La burbuja de Bertold, created by the Argentinean artists Diego Agrimbau and Gabriel Ippóliti, which is part of his current research at BU. He discussed in the talk the way the book makes evident the crisis of the nation-state and the expansion of capitalism as a dominant force of society. Moreover, he questions the extent to which the graphic novel represents the agency of the (traditional) human and the posthuman; also, if these subjectivities are able, according to the book, to confront the political and economic structures.