Immigrants and Comics

Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis
Herausgeber: Serrano, Nhora Lucía

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Produktbeschreibung

Immigrants and Comics is an interdisciplinary, themed anthology that focuses on how comics have played a crucial role in representing, constructing, and reifying the immigrant subject and the immigrant experience in popular global culture of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780367698249
• ISBN-10: 0367698242
• Artikelnr.: 67823093

Autorenporträt

Nhora Lucía Serrano is the Associate Director for Digital Learning & Research at Hamilton College, New York. Originally from Colombia, and previously a Visiting Scholar of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, Dr. Serrano is a trained Medieval and Early Modern Visual Studies scholar, who was the recipient of a 2018 Mellon Press Diversity Fellowship at the MIT Press, a 2017 NEH Summer Institute fellowship at the Newberry Library, and a 2014 Smithsonian National Postal Museum fellowship. Dr. Serrano is a founding member and currently the Treasurer of the Comics Studies Society, and from 2014-2018, she served on the MLA Executive Forum on Comics and Graphic Narratives. Presently, Dr. Serrano is an MLA Delegate Assembly Member and she serves on the MLA Executive Discussion Group on Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Comics as Movement; Comics as Planetary Healing Introduction: In
the Shadow of Liberty: Immigration and the Graphic Space Part 1: Shaping
Comic Traditions, Portraying Immigrants 1. Of Birds and Men: Metonymic and
Symbolic Representations of Immigration in Shaun Tan's The Arrival 2. "How
Quickly We Forget": Immigration and Family Narrative in James Sturm's The
Golem's Mighty Swing and Unstable Molecules 3. Postcards from the Past: The
1893 Chicago World Fair and Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid
on Earth 4. From Immigrants to Filibusters: The Curious Case of R. F.
Outcault's The Yellow Kid 5. Naming the Place and Telling the Story in
Demain, demain: Nanterre, bidonville de la Folie, 1962-1966 by Laurent
Maffre 6. More than a Cockroach: Dreaming and Surviving in Will Eisner's A
Life Force 7. Stranded by Empire: The Forced Migrants of Shirato Sanpei's
Kieyuku sho-jo Part II: Border Crossings, Immigrant Identity 8. Once Upon a
Time on the Border: Immigration and Mexican Comic Book Westerns 9.
Picturing the (Silent) History of Immigration in France and in French
Bandes Dessinées 10. Brodeck's Report (Manu Larcenet): A Study in
Intermediality 11. Migra Mouse: Immigration, Satire, and Hybridity as
Latino/a Decolonial Acts 12. Tracing Trauma: Questioning Understanding of
Clandestine Migration in Amazigh: itinéraire d'hommes libres 13.
Immigration, Photography, and the Color Line in Lila Quintero Weaver's
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White 14. African Diaspora and Black Bodies:
X-Men's Storm