Beyond the Icon : Asian American Graphic Narratives / / Eleanor Ty

• Pubblicazione: Columbus, Ohio : , : The Ohio State University Press, , 2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 pages)
• Disciplina: 741.5/97308995073
• Soggetto topico: Ethnic studies; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literature: history & criticism
• Soggetto non controllato: Social Science; Ethnic Studies; American; Asian American Studies; Literary Criticism; Comics & Graphic Novels; Asian American
• Persona (resp. second.): TyEleanor Rose <1958->
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Demonstrates how contemporary Asian American creators employ graphic narrative to counter harmful misrepresentations and show Asian Americans as complex, nuanced individuals.
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond the icon
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910635099103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II