The essays in this collection discuss how comics and graphic narratives can be useful primary texts and learning tools in college and university classes across different disciplines. There are six sections: American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Genre Studies, and Composition, Rhetoric and Communication. With a combination of practical and theoretical investigations, the book brings together discussions among teacher-scholars to advance the scholarship on teaching comics and graphic narratives--and provides scholars with useful references, critical approaches, and particular case studies.…mehr
The essays in this collection discuss how comics and graphic narratives can be useful primary texts and learning tools in college and university classes across different disciplines. There are six sections: American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Genre Studies, and Composition, Rhetoric and Communication. With a combination of practical and theoretical investigations, the book brings together discussions among teacher-scholars to advance the scholarship on teaching comics and graphic narratives--and provides scholars with useful references, critical approaches, and particular case studies.
Lan Dong is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois, Springfield. She is the author or editor of three books and has written a number of journal articles and book chapters on Asian American literature, children's literature, and popular culture.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by Robert G. Weiner Introduction: Reading and Teaching Graphic Narratives LAN DONG Part I : American Studies 1. Art and Commerce in the Classroom: Teaching an American Studies Course in Comics EDWARD A. SHANNON 2. The Black Politics of Newspaper Comic Strips: Teaching Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks and Keith Knight's The K Chronicles DANIEL STEIN 3. Teaching the Comics Anthology: The Readers, Authors, and Media of McSweeney's ALEXANDER STARRE 4. Teaching Visual Literacy Through 9/11 Graphic Narratives CHRISTINA MEYER Part II : Ethnic Studies 5. Drawing Attention: Comics as a Means of Approaching U.S. Cultural Diversity DEREK PARKER ROYAL 6. Teaching Asian American Graphic Narratives in a "Post-Race" ANNE CONG-HUYEN and CAROLINE KYUNGAH HONG 7. Graphic Multiculturalism: Miné Okubo's Citizen 13660 in the Literature Classroom JESSICA KNIGHT Part III : Women's and Gender Studies 8. "The Slippage Between Seeing and Saying": Getting a Life in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home SUSAN R. VAN DYNE 9. Our Graphics, Ourselves: Graphic Narratives and the Gender Studies Classroom M. CATHERINE JONET 10. Performing the Veil: Gender and Resistance in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Shirin Neshat's Photography JUDITH RICHARDS and CYNTHIA M. WILLIAMS Part IV : Cultural Studies 11. The Weimar Republic Redux: Multiperspectival History in Jason Lutes' Berlin City of Stones JOSHUA KAVALOSKI 12. Ivorian Bonus: Teaching Abouet and Oubrerie's SUSANNA HOENESS-KRUPSAW 13. Digging Up the Dirt? Teaching Graphic Narratives in German Academia STEFAN HOEPPNER Part V : Genre Studies 14. Making the Unseen and the Unspoken Visible and Audible: Trauma and the Graphic Novel EDWARD BRUNNER 15. Exposition and Disquisition: Nonfiction Graphic Narratives and Comics Theory in the Literature Classroom ADRIELLE ANNA MITCHELL 16. Serial Self-Portraits: Framing Student Conversations About Graphic Memoir JONATHAN D'AMORE Part VI : Composition, Rhetoric, and Communication 17. Batman Returns (to Class): Graphic Narratives and the Syncretic Classroom KATHARINE POLAK MACDONALD 18. 300 Ways to Teach the Epic MARY ANN TOBIN 19. Comics (as) Journalism: Teaching Joe Sacco's Palestine to Media Students ALLA GADASSIK AND SARAH HENSTRA About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by Robert G. Weiner Introduction: Reading and Teaching Graphic Narratives LAN DONG Part I : American Studies 1. Art and Commerce in the Classroom: Teaching an American Studies Course in Comics EDWARD A. SHANNON 2. The Black Politics of Newspaper Comic Strips: Teaching Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks and Keith Knight's The K Chronicles DANIEL STEIN 3. Teaching the Comics Anthology: The Readers, Authors, and Media of McSweeney's ALEXANDER STARRE 4. Teaching Visual Literacy Through 9/11 Graphic Narratives CHRISTINA MEYER Part II : Ethnic Studies 5. Drawing Attention: Comics as a Means of Approaching U.S. Cultural Diversity DEREK PARKER ROYAL 6. Teaching Asian American Graphic Narratives in a "Post-Race" ANNE CONG-HUYEN and CAROLINE KYUNGAH HONG 7. Graphic Multiculturalism: Miné Okubo's Citizen 13660 in the Literature Classroom JESSICA KNIGHT Part III : Women's and Gender Studies 8. "The Slippage Between Seeing and Saying": Getting a Life in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home SUSAN R. VAN DYNE 9. Our Graphics, Ourselves: Graphic Narratives and the Gender Studies Classroom M. CATHERINE JONET 10. Performing the Veil: Gender and Resistance in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Shirin Neshat's Photography JUDITH RICHARDS and CYNTHIA M. WILLIAMS Part IV : Cultural Studies 11. The Weimar Republic Redux: Multiperspectival History in Jason Lutes' Berlin City of Stones JOSHUA KAVALOSKI 12. Ivorian Bonus: Teaching Abouet and Oubrerie's SUSANNA HOENESS-KRUPSAW 13. Digging Up the Dirt? Teaching Graphic Narratives in German Academia STEFAN HOEPPNER Part V : Genre Studies 14. Making the Unseen and the Unspoken Visible and Audible: Trauma and the Graphic Novel EDWARD BRUNNER 15. Exposition and Disquisition: Nonfiction Graphic Narratives and Comics Theory in the Literature Classroom ADRIELLE ANNA MITCHELL 16. Serial Self-Portraits: Framing Student Conversations About Graphic Memoir JONATHAN D'AMORE Part VI : Composition, Rhetoric, and Communication 17. Batman Returns (to Class): Graphic Narratives and the Syncretic Classroom KATHARINE POLAK MACDONALD 18. 300 Ways to Teach the Epic MARY ANN TOBIN 19. Comics (as) Journalism: Teaching Joe Sacco's Palestine to Media Students ALLA GADASSIK AND SARAH HENSTRA About the Contributors Index
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