Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0292722818 ISBN 13: 9780292722811

Casa editrice: Univ of Texas Pr, 2010

Riassunto

"Frederick Aldama has done it again with another timely and valuable book about comics. Picking up from his pioneering book Your Brain on Latino Comics, he has gathered an insightful group of authors in Multicultural Comics that deftly engage, the intersectionality of race and identity, image and idea, theory and methods, and comics and politics. The impressive range of critical essays covers steep theoretical and cultural ground yet sure-footedly demonstrates that the grand fantasyscapes illustrated across various comic book configurations are a site of real and imagined racial differentiation intensely dialoguing with the self, the nation, and the world."

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L'autore:

Adilifu Nama, California State University Northridge, author of the award-winning Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film and articles on the intersection of American pop culture with black representation in television, sci-fi, hip-hop, and comics

"With this collection, comics studies enters a new era. Leaving behind often sterile discussion on comics versus graphic novel or popular versus high-brow, Multicultural Comics targets what should be at the heart of all cutting-edge scholarship today and tomorrow: the cultural complexities of a practice that exceeds any given boundary."
Jan Baetens, University of Leuven, author of Herge ecrivain

Product Description:

Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle 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 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.

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• Editore: Univ of Texas Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0292722818
• ISBN 13: 9780292722811
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 257
• Redattore: Aldama Frederick Luis