Part II American women's lives in graphic novels: becoming and unbecoming women / The "first" graphic novel in America: revisiting he done her wrong and it rhymes with lust / Martha Kuhlman The mad-men generation: Kurtzman and Feiffer / Fabrice Leroy -- From Justin Green and Art Spiegelman to Alison Bechdel: writing the self in the graphic novel / Jan Baetens -- Graphic journalism / Laurike In t'Veld -- "Great" American graphic novels / Daniel Stein and Astrid B̈oger -- Crime from EC Comics to Ed Brubaker / Andrew J. Kunka -- Sperheroes in graphic novels/ Marc Singer -- Science fiction aand fantasy: new works of imagination / Ian Hague -- "Scared witless": war in the American graphic novel / Hugo Frey -- Part II Graphic novels and the quest for an American diversity -- Expressions of Jewishness alongside grief in American graphic novels / Tahneer Oksman -- Black looking and looking black: African American cartoon aesthetics / Joanna Davis-McElligatt -- African American new history-writing in graphic narratives / Michael A. Chaney -- Coming to America, "land of the free": Asian American representations in graphic narrative / Monica Chiu -- Spaciotemporal projections: Los Bros Hernandez, Fantagraphics, and the rise of Latinx creating and reading communities / Frederick Luis Aldama -- Queer graphic novels: a paradigm of paradox / Alison Halsall -- American women's lives in graphic novels: becoming and unbecoming women / Martha Kuhlman
Summary:
"This book explores the important role of the graphic novel in reflecting American society and in the shaping of the American imagination. It guides readers through the theoretical text-image scholarship to explain the meaning of the complex borderlines between graphic novels, comics, newspaper strips, caricature, literature, and art"-- Provided by publisher.
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