“Outlaws on the Paper Frontier: Refiguring National Belonging through Literature and Print Culture in Argentina,” featuring Manuela Barzone, assistant professor of Spanish at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska, is scheduled for Thursday, March 9 from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Zandbroz in downtown Fargo.

Faculty, students and public are invited. Light refreshments and beverages will be served.

Using as a point of departure the paradigm of the U.S. Western, Barzone proposes to open up the “gauchesca” literary genre centered on the frontier experience in Argentina to popular print media, such as comic strips, cartoons and calendar illustrations that appeared in magazines in both Argentina and the United States.

This approach counters a common argument that the genre is closed, includes only canonical texts and ends at the latest during the beginning of the 20th century.

Barzone’s research interests include Argentinian and U.S. frontier literature and visual culture, the global western, contemporary feminist public performances and translation studies. She earned her doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Massachusettes Amherst, which also awarded her its Distinguished Teaching Award.

She is slated to soon publish “Argentina’s Outlaws and the Revisionist Western: The Case of Hector German Oesterheld and Hugo Pratt’s Sargento Kirk.”

For more information, contact Heath Wing, assistant professor of Spanish, at heath.wing@ndsu.edu or 701-231-8315.

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