The Content of Our Caricature : : African American Comic Art and Political Belonging / / Rebecca Wanzo.
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Wanzo, Rebecca, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Content of Our Caricature : African American Comic Art and Political Belonging / Rebecca Wanzo. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource : 69 hts / 6 page color insert text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Postmillennial Pop ; 25 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Image -- Introduction: A Visual Grammar of Citizenship -- 1 “Impussanations,” Coons, and Civic Ideals: A Black Comics Aesthetic -- 2 The Revolutionary Body: Nat Turner, King, and Frozen Subjection -- 3 Wearing Hero- Face: Melancholic Patriotism in Truth: Red, White & Black -- 4 “The Only Thing Unamerican about Me Is the Treatment I Get!” Infantile Citizenship and the Situational Grotesque -- 5 Rape and Race in the Gutter: Equal Opportunity Humor Aesthetics and Underground Comix -- To Caricature, with Love: A Black Panther Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Winner, 2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award, given by the Society for Cinema and Media StudiesWinner, 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Academic/Scholarly WorkHonorable Mention, 2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, given by the Popular Culture AssociationWinner, 2020 Charles Hatfield Book Prize, given by the Comic Studies SocietyTraces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its headRevealing the long aesthetic tradition of African American cartoonists who have made use of racist caricature as a black diasporic art practice, Rebecca Wanzo demonstrates how these artists have resisted histories of visual imperialism and their legacies. Moving beyond binaries of positive and negative representation, many black cartoonists have used caricatures to criticize constructions of ideal citizenship in the United States, as well as the alienation of African Americans from such imaginaries. The Content of Our Caricature urges readers to recognize how the wide circulation of comic and cartoon art contributes to a common language of both national belonging and exclusion in the United States.Historically, white artists have rendered white caricatures as virtuous representations of American identity, while their caricatures of African Americans are excluded from these kinds of idealized discourses. Employing a rich illustration program of color and black-and-white reproductions, Wanzo explores the works of artists such as Sam Milai, Larry Fuller, Richard “Grass” Green, Brumsic Brandon Jr., Jennifer Cruté, Aaron McGruder, Kyle Baker, Ollie Harrington, and George Herriman, all of whom negotiate and navigate this troublesome history of caricature. The Content of Our Caricature arrives at a gateway to understanding how a visual grammar of citizenship, and hence American identity itself, has been constructed. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2024) African American cartoonists. African Americans in comics. African Americans Caricatures and cartoons. African Americans Caricatures and cartoons History. Belonging (Social psychology) in art. Belonging (Social psychology) United States. Racism in cartoons United States. Racism in comics. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. bisacsh Aaron McGruder. African American Art. African American Soldiers. African American children. African Americans. Black Aesthetics. Black Body. Black Panther. Black superheroes. Brumsic Brandon Jr. Captain America. Civil Rights Movement. Comics. Hermeneutic. Ho Che Anderson. Icon. Jennifer Cruté. Kyle Baker. Larry Fuller. Martin Luther King Jr. Nat Turner. Ollie Harrington. R Crumb. Richard Grass Green. Thomas Nast. U.S. comics. Violence. World War II. black liberation. black masculinity. citizenship. editorial cartoons. equal opportunity humor. infantile citizenship. offensive humor. racial melancholia. slavery. stereotype. underground comix. visual culture. https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479822195.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479822195 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479822195/original |
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