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<P><cite>Multicultural Comics: From <cite>Zap</cite> to <cite>Blue Beetle</cite></cite> 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series.
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Multiculturalisme dans la littérature.
HUMOR > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Comics & Graphic Novels.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Multiculturalism in literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Jesus
  • 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.

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