Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics

Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora & Comics is the first book-length exploration of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives written in the context of diasporic and immigrant communities in the United States by and for young, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. The book analyzes the complex identity formation of first- and subsequent-generation diasporic protagonists in globalized rural and urban environments and dissects the implications that marginalized formative processes have for the genre in its graphic version.

Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo is an assistant professor at Rhode Island College. He is the author of Children of Globalization. He studies migration in narratives about youth development and grew up in Mexico City.