Teaching comics and graphic narratives : essays on theory, strategy and practice / edited by Lan Dong ; foreword by Robert G. Weiner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dong, Lan, 1974-

Weiner, Robert G., 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc., in education.

Graphic novels in education.

Comic books, strips, etc--Study and teaching.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, NC : McFarland, [2012]

Summary:

"The essays in this collection discuss how comics and graphic narratives can be useful primary texts and learning tools in college and university classes across different disciplines. The book brings together discussions among teacher-scholars to advance the scholarship on teaching comics and graphic narratives--and provides scholars with useful references, critical approaches, and particular case studies"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

American Studies.

Art and commerce in the classroom : teaching an American studies course in comics / Edward A. Shannon

The Black politics of newspaper comic strips : teaching Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks and Keith Knight's The K Chronicles / Daniel Stein

Teaching the comics anthology : the readers, authors, and media of McSweeney's 13 / Alexander Starre

Teaching visual literacy through 9/11 graphic narratives / Christina Meyer

Ethnic Studies.

Drawing attention : comics as a means of approaching U.S. cultural diversity / Derek Parker Royal

Teaching Asian American graphic narratives in a "post-race" era / Anne Cong-Huyen and Caroline Kyungah Hong

Graphic multiculturalism : Miné Okubo's Citizen 13660 in the literature classroom / Jessica Knight

Women's and Gender Studies.

"The slippage between seeing and saying" : getting a life in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home / Susan R. Van Dyne

Our graphics, ourselves : graphic narratives and the gender studies classroom / M. Catherine Jonet

Performing the veil : gender and resistance in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Shirin Neshat's photography / Judith Richards and Cynthia M. Williams

Cultural Studies.

The Weimar Republic redux : multiperspectival history in Jason Lutes' Berlin City of Stones / Joshua Kavaloski

Ivorian bonus : teaching Abouet and Oubrerie's Aya / Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw

Digging up the dirt? Teaching graphic narratives in German academia / Stefan Hoeppner

Genre Studies.

Making the unseen and the unspoken visible and audible : trauma and the graphic novel / Edward Brunner

Exposition and disquisition : nonfiction graphic narratives and comics theory in the literature classroom / Adrielle Anna Mitchell

Serial self-portraits : framing student conversations about graphic memoir / Jonathan D'Amore

Composition, Rhetoric, and Communication.

Batman returns (to class) : graphic narratives and the syncretic classroom / Katharine Polak MacDonald

300 ways to teach the epic / Mary Ann Tobin

Comics (as) journalism : teaching Joe Sacco's Palestine to media students / Alla Gadassik and Sarah Henstra.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786461462

0786461462

OCLC:

779876957