Representing multiculturalism in comics and graphic novels / edited by Carolene Ayaka and Ian Hague.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ayaka, Carolene, editor.

Hague, Ian, 1986- editor.

Series:

Routledge research in cultural and media studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Graphic novels--History and criticism.

Graphic novels.

Multiculturalism in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

"Multiculturalism, and its representation, has long presented challenges for the medium of comics. This book presents a wide ranging survey of the ways in which comics have dealt with the diversity of creators and characters and the (lack of) visibility for characters who don't conform to particular cultural stereotypes. Contributors engage with ethnicity and other cultural forms from Israel, Romania, North America, South Africa, Germany, Spain, U.S. Latino and Canada and consider the ways in which comics are able to represent multiculturalism through a focus on the formal elements of the medium. Discussion themes include education, countercultures, monstrosity, the quotidian, the notion of the "other," anthropomorphism, and colonialism. Taking a truly international perspective, the book brings into dialogue a broad range of comics traditions"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I. Histories and contexts

Multiculturalism meets the counterculture: representing racial difference in Robert Crumb's Underground Comix / Corey K. Creekmur

The impact of Latino identities and the humanizing of multiculturalism in Love and rockets / Ana Merino

The Presidential penis: questions of race and representation in South African comic and satirical art / Andy Mason

Part II. Depicting difference

Recognition and resemblance: fracture, imagination and ideology in depictions of cultural and national difference / Simon Grennan

"Badgers? We don't need no steenkin' badgers!" Talbot's Grandville, anthropomorphism and multiculturalism

The image of the foreigner in historical Romanian comics under Ceaușescu's dictatorship / Mihaela Precup

Part III. Monstrosity and otherness

The monster within and without: Spanish comics, monstrosity, religion, and alterity / Sarah D. Harris

Colonialist heroes and monstrous others: stereotype and narrative form in British adventure comic books / Ian Horton

Set pieces: cultural appropriation and the search for contemporary identities in Shōnen manga / Jacob Birken

Part IV. Challenging Assumptions

Narrative exploration against mentality issues: indirect education for multiculturalism in Tintin / Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru

Embracing childish perspective: Rutu Modan's A royal banquet with the Queen / Lily Glasner

Part V. Case studies

An innocent at home: Scott Pilgrim and his Canadian multicultural contexts / Brenna Clarke Gray and Peter Wilkins

The lower east side as mishmash of Jewish women's multicultural images in Leela Corman's Unterzakhn / Dana Mihăilescu

They all look alike? Representations of East Asian Americans in Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings and Scenes from an impending marriage / Emma Oki

Tulips and roses in a global garden: speaking local identities in Persepolis and Tekkon Kinkreet / Alex Link.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138025158

1138025151

9781315775340

1315775344

OCLC:

863195692

Publisher Number:

99962350695