Qiana Whitted

EC Comics

Race, Shock, and Social Protest

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During its heyday in the early 1950s, EC Comics was an innovator in the so-called ""preachies"", socially conscious stories that challenged the conservatism of Eisenhower-era America. EC Comics examines a selection of these works and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9780813566313
• ISBN-10: 0813566312
• Artikelnr.: 53847822

Autorenporträt

QIANA WHITTED is a professor of English and African American studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. She is the author of A God of Justice?: The Problem of Evil in 20th Century Black Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
A)    Introduction: The Preachies
1:         Spelled Out Carefully in the Captions
            How to Read an EC Magazine
2:         We Pictured Him So Different, Joey!
            Optical Illusions of Blackness and Embodiment in EC
3:         Oh God…Sob…What Have I Done…?
            Shame, Mob Rule, and the Affective Realities of EC Justice
4:         Battling, in the Sea of Comics
            EC’s Invisible Man and the Jim Crow Future of “Judgment Day!”
B)    Conclusion: Hence We See Justice Triumph!
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography  
Index