Beyond the Icon : Asian American Graphic Narratives / Eleanor Ty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ty, Eleanor Rose, 1958- editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Place of Publication:

The Ohio State University Press 2022

Columbus, Ohio : The Ohio State University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Demonstrates how contemporary Asian American creators employ graphic narrative to counter harmful misrepresentations and show Asian Americans as complex, nuanced individuals.

Contents:

Introduction: Asian American literature and Asian American graphic novels / Eleanor Ty

Countervisualizing barbed wire, guard towers, and latrines in George Takei and Harmony Becker's They called us enemy / Monica Chiu

Ethics of storytelling: teaching Thi Bui's The best we could do / Stella Oh and erin Khuê Ninh

Bitch Planet's Meiko Maki is down for justice! / Jeanette Roan

Anachronistic figures and counternarratives: comics as a subversive form in American born Chinese and Johnny Hiro / Jin Lee

"A Storm of a Girl Silently Gathering Force": peminist girlhoods in the comics of Trinidad Escobar and Malaka Gharib / Melinda Luisa de Jesús

Questioning the "look" of normalcy and the borders of South/Asian Americans: Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, and the comic superhero / Shilpa Davé

(Un)masking a Chinese American superhero: Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew's The shadow hero / Lan Dong

Posthumanist critique in Jillian Tamaki's Boundless / Eleanor Ty

Drawing disease and disability: ethical optics and space in Adrian Tomine's Killing and dying / Stella Oh.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814214947

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access