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Shattered : The Asian American Comics Anthology
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yang, Jeff.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comic books, strips, etc--United States.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Asian Americans.
- Asian Americans in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Shattered
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press, The, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Three years after the publication of the groundbreaking Asian American comics anthology Secret Identities, the same team is back with a new volume?bigger, bolder, and more breathtaking in scope.While the first collection focused on the conventions of superhero comics, this new book expands its horizon to include edgier genres, from hard-boiled pulp to horror, adventure, fantasy, and science fiction. Using this darker range of hues, it seeks to subvert?to shatter?the hidebound stereotypes that have obscured the Asian image since the earliest days of immigration: the stoic br
- Contents:
- Copyright; Title Page; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; How To Read This Book; PROLOGUE; The Sacrifice; Burn; CHAPTER ONE: THE BRUTE; Driving Steel: The Breaking; Master Tortoise & Master Hare; Showtime; Solitary; Clean Getaway; CHAPTER TWO: THE TEMPTRESS; Bai Bai, Bai Tsai; Ching Shih: Queen of Pirates; The Regrets We Talk About; Heroes Without a Country: Tokyo Rose; The Date; GALLERY; Adam Warrock; Revolution Shuffle; Tempest; The Walkman; Angry Asian Man; Mei the Alien; Camp Mech; The Death Stalker; CHAPTER THREE: THE BRAIN; Hide and Sikh; The Power of Petunia; Drones and Droids
- Camden's RevengeMetatron; Los Robos, Arizona; A Cut Above; CHAPTER FOUR: THE ALIEN; Peril: Welcome to the Terror; Miss Moti, Shattered; The Stranger; Personal Monsters; Weightless; A Dream of Flying; Fashion Never Dyes; CHAPTER FIVE: THE MANIPULATOR; Hibakusha: Secrets; Push; Persons of Mass Destruction; The Merciful; Qi La!!; Occupy Ethnic Foods; Shadow Hero; FINALE; The Sealing; EPILOGUE; The Vilcek Story; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-59558-913-9
- 1-59558-859-0
- OCLC:
- 833770954
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