Multicultural comics : from Zap to Blue Beetle / edited by Frederick Luis Aldama ; foreword by Derek Parker Royal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969-

Series:

Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series.

Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Comic books, strips, etc.

Multiculturalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Foreword, or, Reading within the gutter / Derek Parker Royal

Multicultural comics today : a brief introduction / Frederick Luis Aldama

History, concepts, and methods. Race and comix / Leonard Rifas

"Authentic" Latinas/os and queer characters in mainstream and alternative comics / Jonathan Risner

Native American narratives from early art to graphic novels : how we see stories/Ezhi-g'waabamaanaanig Aadizookaanag / Margaret Noori

Liminality and mestiza consciousness in Lynda Barry's One hundred demons / Melinda L. De Jesús

Black nationalism, Bunraku, and beyond : articulating Black heroism through cultural fusion and comics / Rebecca Wanzo

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

Lost in translation : Jessica Abel's La perdida, the Bildungsroman, and "that 'Mexican' feel" / Patrick L. Hamilton

Same difference : graphic alterity in the work of Gene Luen Yang, Adrian Tomine, and Derek Kirk Kim / Jared Gardner

A multicultural comic book toolbox. "It ain't John Shaft" : Marvel gets multicultural in The tomb of Dracula / Elizabeth Nixon

Invisible art, invisible planes, invisible people / Evan Thomas

Wondrous capers : the graphic novel in India / Suhaan Mehta

Chronology, country, and consciousness in Wilfred Santiago's In my darkest hour / Nicholas Hetrick

Finding archives/making archives : observations on conducting multicultural comics research / Jenny E. Robb and Rebecca Wanzo.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-292-78484-8

OCLC:

859671869