Coda: whether we want them or note: building an aesthetic of children's digital comics / Joe Sutliff Sanders. 20. Sita's Ramayana's Negotiation with an Indian epic picture storytelling tradition / "What is China but a people and their (visual) stories?" The synthetic in narratives of contest in Gene Luen Yang's Boxers & Saints / Karly Marie Grice ; 3. Comics, adolescents, and the language of mental illness: David Heatley's "Overpeck" and Nate Powell's Swallow me whole / Sarah Thaller ; 4. Not haunted, just empty: figurative representation in Sarah Oleksky's Ivy / Catherine Kyle -- Hybrid comics, transmedial storytelling, and graphic novels in adaptation. 5. "Are you an artist like me?!" Do -it-yourself diary books, criticial reading, and reader interaction within the worlds of the Diary of a wimpy kid and Dork diaries series / Rachel L. Rickard Rebellino ; 6. Parodic potty humor and superheroic potentiality in Dav Pilkey's The adventures of Captain Underpants / Joseph Michael Sommers ; 7. Multimodality is magic: My little pony and transmedia strategies in children's comics / Aaron Kashtan ; 8. Framing agency: comics adaptations of Coraline and City of Ember / Meghann Meeusen -- The pedagogy of the panel: comics storytelling in the classroom. 9. From who-ville to hereville: integrating graphic novels into an undergraduate children's literature course / Gwen Athene Tarbox ; 10. Looking beyond the scenes: spatial storytelling and masking in Shaun Tan's The arrival / Christiane Buuck and Cathy Ryan ; 11. When young writers draw their voices: creating hybrid comic memoirs with Sherman Alexie's The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Michael L. Kersulov, Mary Beth Hines, and Rebecca Rupert -- Representing gender and sexuality in the comics medium. 12. Unbalanced on the brink: adolescent girls and the discovery of the self in Skim and This one summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki / Marni Stanley ; 13. The drama of coming out: censorship and drama by Raina Telgemeier / Eti Berland ; 14. "What the junk?" Defeating the velociraptor in the outhouse with the Lumberjanes / Rachel Dean-Ruzicka ; 15. Engendering friendship: exploring Jewish and vampiric boyhood in Joann Sfar's Little vampire / Rebecca A. Brown ; 16. Gothic excess and the body in Vera Brosgol's Anya's ghost / Krystal Howard -- Drawing on identity: history, politics, culture. 17. Graphically/ubiquitously separate: the sanctified littering of Jack T. Chick's fundy-queer comics / Lance Weldy ; 18. Waiting for spider-man: representations of urban school "reform" in Marvel comics' Miles Morales series / David E. Low ; 19. "Walk together, children": the function and interplay of comics, history, and memory in Martin Luther King and the Montgomery story and John Lewis's March: book one / Joanna C. Davis-McElligatt ; 20. Sita's Ramayana's Negotiation with an Indian epic picture storytelling tradition / Anuja Madan ; Coda: whether we want them or note: building an aesthetic of children's digital comics / Joe Sutliff Sanders.
Summary:
"One of the most significant transformations in literature for children and young adults during the last twenty years has been the resurgence of comics. Educators and librarians extol the benefits of comics reading, and increasingly, children's and YA comics and comics hybrids have won major prizes, including the Printz Award and the National Book Award. Despite the popularity and influence of children's and YA graphic novels, the genre has not received adequate scholarly attention. Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults is the first book to offer a critical examination of children's and YA comics. The anthology is divided into five sections, structure and narration; transmedia; pedagogy; gender and sexuality; and identity, that reflect crucial issues and recurring topics in comics scholarship during the twenty-first century. The contributors are likewise drawn from a diverse array of disciplines -- English, education, library science, and fine arts. Collectively, they analyze a variety of contemporary comics, including such highly popular series as Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Lumberjanes; Eisner award-winning graphic novels by Gene Luen Yang, Nate Powell, Mariko Tamaki, and Jillian Tamaki; as well as volumes frequently challenged for use in secondary classrooms, such as Raina Telgemeier's Drama and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian."-- Provided by publisher.
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