Table of Contents |
| Notes on the Contributors | vii |
| Foreword / John A. Lent | xiii |
| Introducing Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads / Daniel Stein | 1 |
pt. I | Politics and Poetics | |
1. | Not Just a Theme: Transnationalism and Form in Visual Narratives of US Slavery / Michael A. Chaney | 15 |
2. | Transnational Identity as Shape-Shifting: Metaphor and Cultural Resonance in Gene Luen Yang's / Elisabeth El Refaie | 33 |
3. | Cosmopolitan Suspicion: Comics Journalism and Graphic Silence / Georgiana Banita | 49 |
4. | Staging Cosmopolitanism: The Transnational Encounter in Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza / Aryn Bartley | 67 |
5. | "Trying to Recapture the Front": A Transnational Perspective on Hawaii in R. Kikuo Johnson's / Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt | 83 |
6. | Folding Nations, Cutting Borders: Transnationalism in the Comics of Warren Craghead III / Daniel Wiillner | 95 |
pt. II | Transnational and Transcultural Superheroes | |
7. | Batman Goes Transnational: The Global Appropriation and Distribution of an American Hero / Sharif Bitar | 113 |
8. | Spider-Man India: Comic Books and the Translating/Transcreating of American Cultural Narratives / Shilpa Dave | 127 |
9. | Of Transcreations and Transpacific Adaptations: Investigating Manga Versions of Spider-Man / Daniel Stein | 145 |
10. | Warren Ellis: Performing the Transnational Author in the American Comics Mainstream / Jochen Ecke | 163 |
11. | "Truth, Justice, and the Islamic Way": Conceiving the Cosmopolitan Muslim Superhero in The 99 / Stefan Meier | 181 |
pt. III | Translations, Transformations, Migrations | |
12. | Lost in Translation: Narratives of Transcultural Displacement in the Wordless Graphic Novel / Florian Grob | 197 |
13. | Hard-Boiled Silhouettes: Transnational Remediation and the Art of Omission in Frank Miller's / Frank Mehring | 211 |
14. | The "Big Picture" as a Multitude of Fragments: Jason Lutes's Depiction of Weimar Republic Berlin / Lukas Etter | 229 |
15. | "Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together": The Cultural Crossovers of Bryan Lee O'Malley / Mark Berninger | 243 |
16. | A Disappointing Crossing: The North American Reception of Asterix and Tintin / Jean-Paul Gabilliet | 257 |
| Afterword: Framing, Unframing, Reframing: Retconning the Transnational Work of Comics / Shane Denson | 271 |
| Index | 285 |