Multicultural comics
Subtitle: from Zap to Blue Beetle
By: edited by Frederick Luis Aldama ; foreword by Derek Parker Royal
Contributors: Project Muse
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Cognitive approaches to literature and culture series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Format: [elektronische middelen] :
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780292784840
Subjects: Electronic books; Multiculturalism in literature; History and criticism; Comic books, strips
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Foreword, or, Reading within the gutter / Derek Parker Royal; title: Multicultural comics today : a brief introduction / Frederick Luis Aldama; title: History, concepts, and methods. Race and comix / Leonard Rifas; title: "Authentic" Latinas/os and queer characters in mainstream and alternative comics / Jonathan Risner; title: Native American narratives from early art to graphic novels : how we see stories/Ezhi-g'waabamaanaanig Aadizookaanag / Margaret Noori; title: Liminality and mestiza consciousness in Lynda Barry's One hundred demons / Melinda L. De Jesu s; title: Black nationalism, Bunraku, and beyond : articulating Black heroism through cultural fusion and comics / Rebecca Wanzo; title: 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; title: Lost in translation : Jessica Abel's La perdida, the Bildungsroman, and "that 'Mexican' feel" / Patrick L. Hamilton; title: Same difference : graphic alterity in the work of Gene Luen Yang, Adrian Tomine, and Derek Kirk Kim / Jared Gardner; title: A multicultural comic book toolbox. "It ain't John Shaft" : Marvel gets multicultural in The tomb of Dracula / Elizabeth Nixon; title: Invisible art, invisible planes, invisible people / Evan Thomas; title: Wondrous capers : the graphic novel in India / Suhaan Mehta; title: Chronology, country, and consciousness in Wilfred Santiago's In my darkest hour / Nicholas Hetrick; title: Finding archives/making archives : observations on conducting multicultural comics research / Jenny E. Robb and Rebecca Wanzo.