Graphic memories of the civil rights movement : reframing history in comics / Jorge Santos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santos, Jorge, 1980- author.

Series:

World comics and graphic nonfiction series.

World comics and graphic nonfiction series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Comic books, strips, etc.

Graphic novels--History and criticism.

Graphic novels.

Civil rights movements in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2019]

Summary:

Winner, Charles Hatfield Book Prize, Comic Studies Society, 2020 A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019 The history of America's civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold again and again. This has relegated many key figures and turning points to the margins, but graphic novels and graphic memoirs present an opportunity to push against the consensus and create a more complete history. Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement showcases five vivid examples of this: Ho Che Anderson's King (2005), which complicates the standard biography of Martin Luther King Jr.; Congressman John Lewis's three-volume memoir, March (2013–2016); Darkroom (2012), by Lila Quintero Weaver, in which the author recalls her Argentinian father's participation in the movement and her childhood as an immigrant in the South; the bestseller The Silence of Our Friends, by Mark Long, Jim Demonakos, and Nate Powell (2012), set in Houston's Third Ward in 1967; and Howard Cruse's Stuck Rubber Baby (1995), whose protagonist is a closeted gay man involved in the movement. In choosing these five works, Jorge Santos also explores how this medium allows readers to participate in collective memory making, and what the books reveal about the process by which history is (re)told, (re)produced, and (re)narrativized. Concluding the work is Santos's interview with Ho Che Anderson.

Contents:

Introduction. Graphic memories in "black and white"

The icon of the once and future King

Bleeding histories on the march

On photo-graphic narrative : "to look

really look" into the darkroom

The silence of our friends and memories of Houston's civil rights history

Tropes, transfer, trauma : the lynching imagery of stuck rubber baby

Epilogue. Cyclops was right: X-lives matter!

Appendix. A conversation with Ho Che Anderson, author-artist of King.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-1828-3

OCLC:

1269268976