Research Catalog

Title

Representing multiculturalism in comics and graphic novels / edited by Carolene Ayaka and Ian Hague.

Publication

• New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ayaka, Carolene
• Hague, Ian, 1986-

Description

xiii, 269 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Multiculturalism, and its representation, has long presented challenges for the medium of comics. This book presents a wide ranging survey of the ways in which comics have dealt with the diversity of creators and characters and the (lack of) visibility for characters who don't conform to particular cultural stereotypes. Contributors engage with ethnicity and other cultural forms from Israel, Romania, North America, South Africa, Germany, Spain, U.S. Latino and Canada and consider the ways in which comics are able to represent multiculturalism through a focus on the formal elements of the medium. Discussion themes include education, countercultures, monstrosity, the quotidian, the notion of the "other," anthropomorphism, and colonialism. Taking a truly international perspective, the book brings into dialogue a broad range of comics traditions"--

Series Statement

Routledge research in cultural and media studies

Uniform Title

Routledge research in cultural and media studies.

Subjects

• Multiculturalism in literature
• LITERARY CRITICISM > Comics & Graphic Novels
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Graphic novels > History and criticism
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies
• LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading
• Comic books, strips, etc > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Histories and contexts -- Multiculturalism meets the counterculture: representing racial difference in Robert Crumb's Underground Comix / Corey K. Creekmur -- The impact of Latino identities and the humanizing of multiculturalism in Love and rockets / Ana Merino -- The Presidential penis: questions of race and representation in South African comic and satirical art / Andy Mason -- Part II. Depicting difference -- Recognition and resemblance: fracture, imagination and ideology in depictions of cultural and national difference / Simon Grennan -- "Badgers? We don't need no steenkin' badgers!" Talbot's Grandville, anthropomorphism and multiculturalism / Mel Gibson -- The image of the foreigner in historical Romanian comics under Ceaușescu's dictatorship / Mihaela Precup -- Part III. Monstrosity and otherness -- The monster within and without: Spanish comics, monstrosity, religion, and alterity / Sarah D. Harris -- Colonialist heroes and monstrous others: stereotype and narrative form in British adventure comic books / Ian Horton -- Set pieces: cultural appropriation and the search for contemporary identities in Shōnen manga / Jacob Birken -- Part IV. Challenging assumptions -- Narrative exploration against mentality issues: indirect education for multiculturalism in Tintin / Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru -- Embracing childish perspective: Rutu Modan's A royal banquet with the Queen / Lily Glasner -- Part V. Case studies -- An innocent at home: Scott Pilgrim and his Canadian multicultural contexts / Brenna Clarke Gray and Peter Wilkins -- The lower east side as mishmash of Jewish women's multicultural images in Leela Corman's Unterzakhn / Dana Mihăilescu -- They all look alike? Representations of East Asian Americans in Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings and Scenes from an impending marriage / Emma Oki -- Tulips and roses in a global garden: speaking local identities in Persepolis and Tekkon Kinkreet / Alex Link.

Call Number

JFE 19-774

ISBN

• 9781138025158
• 1138025151
• 1315775344
• 9781315775340

LCCN

2014026404

OCLC

863195692

Title

Representing multiculturalism in comics and graphic novels / edited by Carolene Ayaka and Ian Hague.

Publisher

New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge research in cultural and media studies

Routledge research in cultural and media studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ayaka, Carolene, editor.

Hague, Ian, 1986- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-774