| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 204 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
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Studies in comics and cartoons |
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Studies in comics and cartoons.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Asian American literature and Asian American graphic novels / Eleanor Ty -- Part 1. Retelling history. Countervisualizing barbed wire, guard towers, and latrines in George Takei and Harmony Becker's 'They called us enemy' / Monica Chiu -- Ethics of storytelling : teaching Thi Bui's 'The best we could do' / Stella Oh and Erin Khuê Ninh -- Part 2. Subverting stereotypes. Bitch Planet's Meiko Maki is down for justice! / Jeanette Roan -- Anachronistic figures and counternarratives : comics as a subversive form in 'American born Chinese' and 'Johnny Hiro' / Jin Lee -- "A Storm of a Girl Silently Gathering Force" : peminist girlhoods in the comics of Trinidad Escobar and Malaka Gharib / Melinda Luisa de Jesús -- Part 3. Superheroes and race. Questioning the "look" of normalcy and the borders of South/Asian Americans : Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, and the comic superhero / Shilpa Davé -- (Un)masking a Chinese American superhero : Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew's 'The shadow hero' / Lan Dong -- Part 4. Ecology, otherness, and inclusivity. Posthumanist critique in Jillian Tamaki's 'Boundless' / Eleanor Ty -- Drawing disease and disability : ethical optics and space in Adrian Tomine's 'Killing and dying' / Stella Oh |
| Summary |
"By looking at storytelling, form, and style in graphic novels and comics such as Ms. Marvel, George Takei's They Called Us Enemy, Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do, Gene Luen Yang's The Shadow Hero, and others, this volume demonstrates how Asian American creators in the twenty-first century employ graphic narrative to show Asian Americans as complex, nuanced individuals"-- Provided by publisher |
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"While most US-based comics studies anthologies tend to neglect race, Beyond the Icon brings it to the foreground through an analysis of the vibrant and growing body of graphic narratives by Asian North American creators in the twenty-first century. By demonstrating how the forms and styles of the comics genre help depict Asian Americans as nuanced individuals in ways that words alone may not, Beyond the Icon makes the case for comics as a crucial artistic form in Asian American cultural production--one used to counter misrepresentations and myths, rewrite official history, and de-exoticize the Asian American experience." |
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"An interdisciplinary team of contributors offers exciting new readings of key texts, including Ms. Marvel, George Takei's They Called Us Enemy, Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do, Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew's The Shadow Hero, works by Adrian Tomine and Jillian Tamaki, and more, to uncover the ways in which Asian American comics authors employ graphic narratives to provide full and complex depictions of Asian diasporic subjects and intervene in the wider North American consciousness. Beyond the Icon initiates vital conversations between Asian American studies, ethnic studies, and comics"--Publisher's description |
| Analysis |
Social Science |
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Ethnic Studies |
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American |
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Asian American Studies |
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Literary Criticism |
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Comics & Graphic Novels |
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Asian American |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record |
| In |
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN |
| Subject |
Graphic novels -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism
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American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism
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Storytelling in literature.
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Asian Americans in literature.
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Ethnic studies.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literary Criticism / American / Asian American.
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Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American Studies.
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Literary Criticism / Comics & Graphic Novels.
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American literature -- Asian American authors.
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Asian Americans in literature.
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Storytelling in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Recurso electrónico en acceso libre
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Libro electrónico
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Comics criticism.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ty, Eleanor Rose, 1958- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780814282458 |
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0814282458 |
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