Multicultural Comics

by Aldama, Frederick Luis; Royal, Derek Parker

• ISBN13: 9780292722811
• ISBN10: 0292722818
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-15
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetleis 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.

Author Biography

Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University. He is the author and editor of eleven books, including Postethnic Narrative Criticism; the MLA-award-winning Dancing with Ghosts: A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas; Why the Humanities Matter; Your Brain on Latino Comics; and A User's Guide to Postcolonial and Latino Borderland Fiction.

Table of Contents

Foreword; Or Reading within the Gutter	p. ix
Multicultural Comics Today: A Brief Introduction	p. 1
History, Concepts, and Methods
Race and Comix	p. 27
"Authentic" Latinas/os and Queer Characters in Mainstream and Alternative Comics	p. 39
Native American Narratives from Early Art to Graphic Novels: How We See Stories / Ezhi-g'waabamaanaanig Aadizookaanag	p. 55
Liminality and Mestiza Consciousness in Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons	p. 73
Black Nationalism, Bunraku, and Beyond: Articulating Black Heroism through Cultural Fusion and Comics	p. 93
Birth of a Nation: Representation, Nationhood, and Graphic Revolution in the Works of D. W. Griffith, DJ Spooky, and Aaron McGruder et al.	p. 105
Lost in Translation: Jessica Abel's La Perdida, the Bildungsroman, and "That 'Mexican' Feel"	p. 120
Same Difference: Graphic Alterity in the Work of Gene Luen Yang, Adrian Tomine, and Derek Kirk Kim	p. 132
A Multicultural Comic Book Toolbox
"It ain't John Shaft": Marvel Gets Multicultural in The Tomb of Dracula	p. 149
Invisible Art, Invisible Planes, Invisible People	p. 157
Wondrous Capers: The Graphic Novel in India	p. 173
Chronology, Country, and Consciousness in Wilfred Santiago's In My Darkest Hour	p. 189
Finding Archives/Making Archives: Observations on Conducting Multicultural Comics Research	p. 202
Works Cited	p. 221
Contributor Notes	p. 235
Index	p. 239
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