Picturing Childhood : : Youth in Transnational Comics /

Picturing Childhood : : Youth in Transnational Comics / / ed. by Mark Heimermann, Brittany Tullis.

Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault’s Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo, and Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie to Hergé’s Tintin (Belgium), José Escobar’s Zipi and Zape (Spain), and Wilhelm Busch’s Max and Moritz (Germany), icon...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
TeilnehmendeR:
Aldama, Frederick Luis.
MitwirkendeR:
Bennett, Tamryn,
Hayton, Christopher J.,
Hayton, Janardana D.,
Heimermann, Mark,
Kauranen, Ralf,
Luis Aldama, Frederick,
Marks, Clifford,
Marshall, C. W.,
Nobis, James G.,
Pellegrin, Annick,
Robertson Wojcik, Pamela,
Saguisag, Lara,
Tullis, Brittany,
Whitted, Qiana,
HerausgeberIn:
Heimermann, Mark,
Tullis, Brittany,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2017
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Putting Childhood Back into World Comics: A Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Bridging Comics Studies and Childhood Studies
  • Chapter One. Little Orphan Annie as Streetwalker
  • Chapter Two. Competent Children and Social Cohesion: Representations of Childhood in Home Front Propaganda Comics during World War II in Finland
  • Chapter Three. In the Minority: Constructions of American Dream Childhood in 1950s–Early 1960s Little Audrey Comics
  • Chapter Four. Comics and Emmett Till
  • Chapter Five. Out of the Mouths of Babes: Mafalda’s Interrogation of the Argentine Angel in the House
  • Chapter Six. Sex, Comix, and Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Zap Comix’s Attack on the American Mainstream
  • Chapter Seven. RAW and Little Lit: Resisting and Redefining Children’s Comics
  • Chapter Eight. Lolicon: Adolescent Fetishization in Osamu Tezuka’s Ayako
  • Chapter Nine. Wise beyond Her Years: How Persepolis Introjects the Adult into the Child
  • Chapter Ten. Vehlmann, or the End of Innocence: Lessons in Cruelty in Seuls and Jolies ténèbres
  • Chapter Eleven. Zeno, Childhood, and The Three Paradoxes
  • Chapter Twelve. Dancing with Demons: Consciousness and Identity in the Comics of Lynda Barry
  • Chapter Thirteen. The Grotesque Child: Animal-Human Hybridity in Sweet Tooth
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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