Multicultural Comics

From Zap to Blue Beetle
Herausgeber: Aldama, Frederick Luis

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Produktbeschreibung

Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle is the first comprehensive look at comic books by and about race and ethnicity. The thirteen essays tease out for the general reader the nuances of how such multicultural comics skillfully combine visual and verbal elements to tell richly compelling stories that gravitate around issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality within and outside the U.S. comic book industry. Among the explorations of mainstream and independent comic books are discussions of the work of Adrian Tomine, Grant Morrison, and Jessica Abel as well as Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan's The Tomb of Dracula; Native American Anishinaabe-related comics; mixed-media forms such as Kerry James Marshall's comic-book/community performance; DJ Spooky's visual remix of classic film; the role of comics in India; and race in the early Underground Comix movement. The collection includes a "one-stop shop" for multicultural comic book resources, such as archives, websites, and scholarly books. Each of the essays shows in a systematic, clear, and precise way how multicultural comic books work in and of themselves and also how they are interconnected with a worldwide tradition of comic-book storytelling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780292737433
• ISBN-10: 0292737432
• Artikelnr.: 35482772

Autorenporträt

Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama

Inhaltsangabe

1. Foreword; Or Reading within the Gutter (Derek Parker Royal)
2. Multicultural Comics Today: A Brief Introduction (Frederick Luis Aldama)
3. Part I. History, Concepts, and Methods
* One. Race and Comix (Leonard Rifas)
* Two. "Authentic" Latinas/os and Queer Characters in Mainstream and
Alternative Comics (Jonathan Risner)
* Three. Native American Narratives from Early Art to Graphic Novels:
How We See Stories / Ezhi-g'waabmaananig Aadizookaanag (Margaret
Noori)
* Four. Liminality and Mestiza Consciousness in Lynda Barry's One
Hundred Demons (Melinda L. de Jesús)
* Five. Black Nationalism, Bunraku, and Beyond: Articulating Black
Heroism through Cultural Fusion and Comics (Rebecca Wanzo)
* Six. Birth of a Nation: Representation, Nationhood, and Graphic
Revolution in the Works of D. W. Griffith, DJ Spooky, and Aaron
McGruder et al. (James Braxton Peterson)
* Seven. Lost in Translation: Jessica Abel's La Perdida, the
Bildungsroman, and "That 'Mexican' Feel" (Patrick L. Hamilton)
* Eight. Same Difference: Graphic Alterity in the Work of Gene Luen
Yang, Adrian Tomine, and Derek Kirk Kim (Jared Gardner)
4. Part II. A Multicultural Comic Book Toolbox
* Nine. "It ain't John Shaft": Marvel Gets Multicultural in The Tomb of
Dracula (Elizabeth Nixon)
* Ten. Invisible Art, Invisible Planes, Invisible People (Evan Thomas)
* Eleven. Wondrous Capers: The Graphic Novel in India (Suhaan Mehta)
* Twelve. Chronology, Country, and Consciousness in Wilfred Santiago's
In My Darkest Hour (Nicholas Hetrick)
* Thirteen. Finding Archives/Making Archives: Observations on
Conducting Multicultural Comics Research (Jenny E. Robb and Rebecca
Wanzo)
5. Works Cited
6. Contributor Notes
7. Index