Crossing Boundaries in Graphic Narrative

Essays on Forms, Series and Genres

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Although the idea that graphic narratives represent an important literary form is still debated in academic circles, in recent years comics scholarship has emerged into wider contexts. This collection of new essays considers various literary approaches to graphic narrative and sequential art. The authors examine the politics of comic form and narrative, the ways in which graphic narrative and sequential art "cross over" into other forms and genres, and how these articulations challenge the ways we read and interpret texts.By bringing literary theory to bear on graphic narrative and balancing readings of individual texts with larger ideas about comics scholarship as a whole, this work expands our understanding of the form itself and its engagement with political culture.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-03-07
Mått178 x 254 x 12 mm
Vikt413 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor229
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786466634

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Jake Jakaitis is the director of undergraduate studies in English at Indiana State University, where he teaches literary theory and criticism, contemporary American literature, multicultural American literature, and science fiction. He lives in Terre Haute. James F. Wurtz is an associate professor of English at Indiana State University, where he teaches 19th and 20th century British and Irish writing, graphic narrative, and literary theory and criticism.

Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reading CrossoverJAKE JAKAITIS and JAMES F. WURTZ PART I: WAYS OF READING1. Michael Chabon’s Amazing Adventures with Dark Horse ComicsJOHN JOSEPH HESS 2. The Comic Modernism of George HerrimanDANIEL STEIN 3. Fantastic Alterities and The SandmanJULIA ROUND 4. Thirty-Two Floors of Disruption: Time and Space in Alan Moore’s “How Things Work Out”RIKKE PLATZ CORTSEN PART II: READING ETHNICITY5. Picturing Books: Southern Print Culture in Howard Cruse’s Stuck Rubber BabyDAVID BORDELON 6. Iconoclastic Readings and Self-Reflexive Rebellions in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Persepolis PAMELA J. RADER 7. Drawing the Trauma of Race: Choices and Crises of Representation in Art Spiegelman’s MausLUMINITA DRAGULESCU 8. Mezclando (Mixing) the “Facts” and the Power of the Image in Latino USAELLEN M. GIL-GÓMEZ PART III: READING THE HERO9. “3X2(9YZ)4A”: Stasis and Speed in Contemporary Superhero ComicsMARTYN PEDLER 10. My Wonder Woman: The “New Wonder Woman,” Gloria Steinem, and the Appropriation of Comic Book IconographyANDREW J. FRIEDENTHAL 11. Paneling Rage: The Loss of Deliberate SequenceMICHAEL P. MILLINGTON About the Contributors Index