Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle"Frederick Aldama has done it again with another timely and valuable book about comics. Picking up from his pioneering book Your Brain on Latino Comics, he has gathered an insightful group of authors in Multicultural Comics that deftly engage, the intersectionality of race and identity, image and idea, theory and methods, and comics and politics. The impressive range of critical essays covers steep theoretical and cultural ground yet sure-footedly demonstrates that the grand fantasyscapes illustrated across various comic book configurations are a site of real and imagined racial differentiation intensely dialoguing with the self, the nation, and the world." |
Contents
A Brief Introduction | 1 |
Graphic Alterity in the Work | 8 |
HISTORY CONCEPTS AND METHODS | 26 |
Authentic Latinasos and Queer Characters in Mainstream | 39 |
Liminality and Mestiza Consciousness in Lynda Barrys | 73 |
Articulating | 93 |
Representation Nationhood | 105 |
Jessica Abels La Perdida | 120 |
JARED GARDNER | 132 |
A MULTICULTURAL COMIC Book toolBOX | 148 |
The Graphic Novel in India | 173 |
Chronology Country and Consciousness | 189 |
Observations | 202 |
WORKS CITED | 221 |
CONTRIBUTOR NOTES | 235 |
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