LEADER 03962nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910788264003321 005 20230801231940.0 010 $a1-62103-221-3 010 $a1-61703-019-8 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046127 035 $a(EBL)819513 035 $a(OCoLC)777330082 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000570485 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11376121 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000570485 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10592793 035 $a(PQKB)10364057 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000206297 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC819513 035 $a(OCoLC)864844698 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse835 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL819513 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10521470 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046127 100 $a20110426d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aComics and the U.S. South$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Brannon Costello and Qiana J. Whitted 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (359 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61703-018-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aI. The South in the national imagination. Li'l Abner, Snuffy, and friends : the Appalachian South in the American comic strip / M. Thomas Inge -- Bumbazine, blackness, and the myth of the redemptive South in Walt Kelly's Pogo / Brian Cremins -- Southern super-patriots and United States nationalism : race, region, and nation in Captain America / Brannon Costello -- "The southern thing" : Doug Marlette, identity consciousness, and the commodification of the South / Christopher Whitby -- II. Emancipation and civil rights resistance. Drawing the unspeakable : Kyle Baker's slave narrative / Conseula Francis -- "Black and white and read all over" : representing race in Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece's Incognegro, a graphic mystery / Tim Caron -- Everybody's graphic protest novel : Stuck rubber baby and the anxieties of racial difference / Gary Richards -- III. The horrors of the South. Of slaves and other swamp things : black southern history as comic book horror / Qiana J. Whitted -- Crooked Appalachia : the laughter of the Melungeon witches in Mike Mignola's Hellboy: The crooked man / Joseph Michael Sommers -- Meat fiction and burning western light : the South in Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher / Nicolas Labarre -- IV. Revisualizing stories, rereading images. A visitation of narratives : dialogue and comics in Randall Kenan's A visitation of spirits / Alison Mandaville -- A re-vision of the record : the demands of reading Josh Neufeld's A.D.: New Orleans after the deluge / Anthony Dyer Hoefer. 330 $aComics and the U.S. South offers a wide-ranging and long overdue assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Diverting the lens of comics studies from the skyscrapers of Superman's Metropolis or Chris Ware's Chicago to the swamps, back roads, small towns, and cities of the U.S. South, this collection critically examines the pulp genres associated with mainstream comic books alongside independent and alternative comics. Some essays seek to discover what Captain America can reveal about sout 606 $aComic books, strips, etc$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRace in literature 607 $aSouthern States$xIn literature 615 0$aComic books, strips, etc.$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a741.5/973 701 $aCostello$b Brannon$f1975-$01477107 701 $aWhitted$b Qiana J.$f1974-$01579105 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788264003321 996 $aComics and the U.S. South$93858952 997 $aUNINA