Multicultural Comics : : From Zap to Blue Beetle /

Multicultural Comics : : From Zap to Blue Beetle / / ed. by Frederick Luis Aldama.

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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 stor...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Aldama, Frederick Luis,
Gardner, Jared,
Hamilton, Patrick L.,
Hetrick, Nicholas,
Jesús, Melinda L. de,
Mehta, Suhaan,
Nixon, Elizabeth,
Noori, Margaret,
Peterson, James Braxton,
Rifas, Leonard,
Risner, Jonathan,
Robb, Jenny E.,
Royal, Derek Parker,
Thomas, Evan,
Wanzo, Rebecca,
HerausgeberIn:
Aldama, Frederick Luis,
TeilnehmendeR:
Royal, Derek Parker.
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2010
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (271 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword; Or Reading within the Gutter
  • Multicultural Comics Today: A Brief Introduction
  • PART I. HISTORY, CONCEPTS, AND METHODS
  • 1. Race and Comix
  • 2. “ Authentic” Latinas/os and Queer Characters in Mainstream and Alternative Comics
  • 3. Native American Narratives from Early Art to Graphic Novels:
  • 4. Liminality and Mestiza Consciousness in Lynda Barry’s One Hundred Demons
  • 5. Black Nationalism, Bunraku, and Beyond:
  • 6. Birth of a Nation:
  • 7. Lost in Translation:
  • 8. Same Difference:
  • PART II. A MULTICULTURAL COMIC BOOK TOOLBOX
  • 9. “It ain’t John Shaft”:
  • 10. Invisible Art, Invisible Planes, Invisible People
  • 11. Wondrous Capers: The Graphic Novel in India
  • 12. Chronology, Country, and Consciousness in Wilfred Santiago’s In My Darkest Hour
  • 13. Finding Archives/Making Archives:
  • WORKS CITED
  • CONTRIBUTOR NOTES
  • INDEX

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