%0 Journal Article 
%A Marini, Anna Marta
%T The fantasmical gothic heterotopia in Rhode Montijo’s "Pablo’s Inferno"
%D 2021
%@ 1889-5611
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/48787
%X Rhode Montijo’s work is characterized by a distinctive blend of diverse elements 
converging in his “fantasmical world”. As comic book artist, he is the author of 
the limited series "Pablo’s Inferno" (1999-2000), narrating a little Mexican American 
boy’s travel through the underworld. Accompanied by fallen demi-god Quetzal, 
Pablo embarks in a quest to (re)discover his cultural roots and commit to them. 
Like most of Montijo’s work, the comic book series holds an intrinsic gothic mode 
exploiting the playful nature of the comic medium and interrogating Mexican 
American heritage, by means of absorption of different genres, tropes, and diegetic 
elements. By examining the use of the Gothic distinctive of his work, the analysis 
will highlight the representation of the elements the author retrieved from his 
strong connection with Mexican heritage and the modes of children’s gothic 
fiction, revealing the unique cross-genre Montijo created to convey the identity 
related issues peculiar to the Mexican American experience.

%K Chicanx comics
%K Gothic
%K Mexican American heritage
%K Children’s gothic
%K Mexican folklore
%K Aztec mythology
%K Cómic chicano
%K Gótico
%K Patrimonio mexicoamericano
%K Gótico infantil
%K Folklor mexicano
%K Mitología azteca
%K Arte
%K Art
%K Historia
%K History
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Sociología
%K Sociology
%K Filología
%K Philology
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala