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Multicultural comics from Zap to Blue Beetle

Title

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

Format

E-Book

Edition

1st ed.

Published

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010.

Description

xi, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

URL

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Other contributors

Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969-

Series

Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index. Available on campus and off campus with authorized login.

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 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.

Subject headings

Multiculturalism in literature. Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism.

Genre heading

Electronic books.

ISBN

9780292722811 (cloth : alk. paper) 0292722818 (cloth : alk. paper)