Crossing Boundaries in Graphic Narrative

by Jakaitis, Jake; Wurtz, James F.

• ISBN13: 9780786466634
• ISBN10: 0786466634
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-22
• Publisher: McFarland Publishing

Summary

Although the idea that graphic narratives represent an important literary form is still debated in academic circles, in recent years comics scholarship has emerged into wider contexts. This collection of new essays considers various literary approaches to graphic narrative and sequential art. The authors examine the politics of comic form and narrative, the ways in which graphic narrative and sequential art "cross over" into other forms and genres, and how these articulations challenge the ways we read and interpret texts.By bringing literary theory to bear on graphic narrative and balancing readings of individual texts with larger ideas about comics scholarship as a whole, this work expands our understanding of the form itself and its engagement with political culture.

Author Biography

James F. Wurtz is an associate professor of English at Indiana State University, where he teaches 19th and 20th century British and Irish writing, graphic narrative, and literary theory and criticism.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Reading Crossover	p. 1
Ways of Reading
Michael ChabonÆs Amazing Adventures with Dark Horse Comics	p. 25
The Comic Modernism of George Herriman	p. 40
Fantastic Alterities and The Sandman	p. 71
Thirty-Two Floors of Disruption: Time and Space in Alan Moore's "How Things Work Out"	p. 93
Reading Ethnicity
Picturing Books: Southern Print Culture in Howard Cruse's Stuck Rubber Baby	p. 107
Iconoclastic Readings and Self-Reflexive Rebellions in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Persepolis 2	p. 123
Drawing the Trauma of Race: Choices and Crises of Representation in Art Spiegelman's Maus	p. 138
Mezclando (Mixing) the "Facts" and the Power of the Image in Latino USA	p. 152
Reading the Hero
"3X2(9YZ)4A": Stasis and Speed in Contemporary Superhero Comics	p. 177
My Wonder Woman: The "New Wonder Woman," Gloria Steinem, and the Appropriation of Comic Book Iconography	p. 188
Paneling Rage: The Loss of Deliberate Sequence	p. 207
About the Contributors	p. 219
Index	p. 221
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