Multicultural comics [[electronic resource] ] : from Zap to Blue Beetle / / edited by Frederick Luis Aldama ; foreword by Derek Parker Royal

• Pubblicazione: Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Disciplina: 741.5/355
• Soggetto topico: Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism; Multiculturalism in literature
• Altri autori: AldamaFrederick Luis <1969->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword, or, Reading within the gutter / Derek Parker Royal -- Multicultural comics today : a brief introduction / Frederick Luis Aldama -- History, concepts, and methods. Race and comix / Leonard Rifas -- "Authentic" Latinas/os and queer characters in mainstream and alternative comics / Jonathan Risner -- Native American narratives from early art to graphic novels : how we see stories/Ezhi-g'waabamaanaanig Aadizookaanag / Margaret Noori -- Liminality and mestiza consciousness in Lynda Barry's One hundred demons / Melinda L. De Jesús -- Black nationalism, Bunraku, and beyond : articulating Black heroism through cultural fusion and comics / Rebecca Wanzo -- Birth of a nation : representation, nationhood, and graphic revolution in the works of D.W. Griffith, DJ Spooky, and Aaron McGruder et al. / James Braxton Peterson -- Lost in translation : Jessica Abel's La perdida, the Bildungsroman, and "that 'Mexican' feel" / Patrick L. Hamilton -- Same difference : graphic alterity in the work of Gene Luen Yang, Adrian Tomine, and Derek Kirk Kim / Jared Gardner -- A multicultural comic book toolbox. "It ain't John Shaft" : Marvel gets multicultural in The tomb of Dracula / Elizabeth Nixon -- Invisible art, invisible planes, invisible people / Evan Thomas -- Wondrous capers : the graphic novel in India / Suhaan Mehta -- Chronology, country, and consciousness in Wilfred Santiago's In my darkest hour / Nicholas Hetrick -- Finding archives/making archives : observations on conducting multicultural comics research / Jenny E. Robb and Rebecca Wanzo.
• Sommario/riassunto: Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle is the first comprehensive look at comic books by and about race and ethnicity. The thirteen essays tease out for the general reader the nuances of how such multicultural comics skillfully combine visual and verbal elements to tell richly compelling stories that gravitate around issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality within and outside the U.S. comic book industry. Among the explorations of mainstream and independent comic books are discussions of the work of Adrian Tomine, Grant Morrison, and Jessica Abel as well as Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan's The Tomb of Dracula; Native American Anishinaabe-related comics; mixed-media forms such as Kerry James Marshall's comic-book/community performance; DJ Spooky's visual remix of classic film; the role of comics in India; and race in the early Underground Comix movement. The collection includes a "one-stop shop" for multicultural comic book resources, such as archives, websites, and scholarly books. Each of the essays shows in a systematic, clear, and precise way how multicultural comic books work in and of themselves and also how they are interconnected with a worldwide tradition of comic-book storytelling.
• Titolo autorizzato: Multicultural comics
• ISBN: 0-292-78484-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823628803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series.