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The blacker the ink : constructions of black identity in comics and sequential art /
When many think of comic books the first thing that comes to mind are caped crusaders and spandex-wearing super-heroes. Perhaps, inevitably, these images are of white men (and more rarely, women). It was not until the 1970s that African American superheroes such as Luke Cage, Blade, and others emerg...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The sweeter the Christmas / Frances Gateward and John Jennings
- Panel I. Black is a dangerous color. "No sweat!" : EC Comics, cold war censorship, and the troublesome colors of "Judgment day!" / Daniel F. Yezbick ; Sex in Yop City : Ivorian femininity and masculinity in Abouet and Oubrerie's Aya / Sally McWilliams ; A postcolony in pieces : black faces, white masks, and queer potentials in Unknown Soldier / Patrick F. Walter
- Panel II. Black in black-and-white and color. Fashion in the funny papers : cartoonist Jackie Ormes's American look / Nancy Goldstein ; Graphic remix : the lateral appropriation of Black nationalism in Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks / Robin R. Means Coleman and William Lafi Youmans
- Panel III. Black tights. American truths : Blackness and the American superhero / Consuela Francis ; Drawn into dialogue : comic book culture and the scene of controversy in Milestone Media's Icon / Andre Carrington ; Critical Afrofuturism : a case study in visual rhetoric, sequential art, and postapocalyptic Black identity / Reynaldo Anderson ; Bare chests, silver tiaras, and removable Afros : the visual design of Black comic book superheroes / Blair Davis
- Panel IV. Graphic Blackness. Daddy Cool : Donald Goines's "visual novel" / Kinohi Nishikawa ; The blues tragicomic : constructing the Black folk subject in Stagger Lee / Qiana Whitted ; Provocation through polyphony : Kyle Baker's Nat Turner / Craig Fischer ; Performance geography : making space in Jeremy Love's Bayou, volume 1 / Hershini Bhana Young ; A secret history of miscegenation : Jimmy Corrigan and the Columbian Exposition of 1893 / James J. Ziegler ; It's a hero?: Black comics and satirizing subjection / Rebecca Wanzo.