02892nam 22005173a 450 991063509910332120240215202755.0https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814214947(CKB)5850000000308660(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/95577(ScCtBLL)69c5be9c-0362-4c30-85f8-57aa7ee3027b(EXLCZ)99585000000030866020231108i20222022 uu engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBeyond the Icon Asian American Graphic Narratives /Eleanor TyColumbus, Ohio :The Ohio State University Press,2022.1 online resource (217 pages)0-8142-5851-4 0-8142-1494-0 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.Demonstrates how contemporary Asian American creators employ graphic narrative to counter harmful misrepresentations and show Asian Americans as complex, nuanced individuals.Ethnic studiesbicsscLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersbicsscLiterature: history & criticismbicsscSocial ScienceEthnic StudiesAmericanAsian American StudiesLiterary CriticismComics & Graphic NovelsAsian AmericanEthnic studiesLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersLiterature: history & criticism741.5/97308995073Ty Eleanor Rose1958-ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910635099103321Beyond the icon3401880UNINA