Beyond the Icon : : Asian American Graphic Narratives / / Eleanor Ty.
Demonstrates how contemporary Asian American creators employ graphic narrative to counter harmful misrepresentations and show Asian Americans as complex, nuanced individuals.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Columbus, Ohio : : The Ohio State University Press,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
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Table of 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.