| Description |
1 online resource (298 pages) |
| Series |
Global Perspectives in Comics Studies |
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Global perspectives in comics studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Series editor's introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: The entanglements of comics and migration -- Part I Migration and the use of comics -- 2 The long road to Almanya: Comics in language education for "guest workers" in West Germany, 1970s-1980s -- 3 Feminist comics activism: Stories about migrant women in Sweden by Amalia Alvarez and Daria Bogdanska -- 4 Contracts via comics: Migrant workers and Thai fishing vessel employment contracts |
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5 From representations of suffering migrants to appreciation of the Mexican American legacy in the United States: The NGO-produced comics Historias migrantes -- 6 Collaborative work, migrant representativity, and racism -- Part II Configurations of nationalism and migration -- 7 V for pissed-offedness: anti-immigrant subversion of dystopian superhero intertexts -- 8 On the "good" side: hegemonic masculinity and transnational intervention in the representation of US-Mexico border enforcement -- 9 The politics of inversion in Americatown: limits in public pedagogy |
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10 Racist and national(ist) symbols in a Finnish antiracist comics zine -- Part III Conventions and revisions of migration narratives -- 11 Absented from his master's service: Benjamin Franklin House, slavery, and comics -- 12 Tears of a refugee: melodramatic life writing and Reinhard Kleist's Der Traum von Olympia -- 13 To see and to show: photography, drawing, and refugee representation in comics journalism on refugee camps -- 14 Humans on the move: some thoughts about approaching migration as a journalist in comics -- 15 Intolerable fictions: composing refugee realities in comics -- Index |
| Summary |
Comics and human mobility have a long history of connections. This volume explores these entanglements with a focus on both how comics represent migration and what applied uses comics have in relation to migration |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
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Emigration and immigration in literature.
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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Emigration and immigration in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Löytty, Olli
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Nikkilä, Aura
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Vuorinne, Anna
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| ISBN |
9781000859003 |
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1000859002 |
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