Research Catalog

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Description

1. xi, 242 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. The history of America's civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold again and again. This has relegated many key figures and turning points to the margins, but graphic novels and graphic memoirs present an opportunity to push against the consensus and create a more complete history. Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement showcases five vivid examples of this: Ho Che Anderson's King (2005), which complicates the standard biography of Martin Luther King Jr.; Congressman John Lewis's three-volume memoir, March (2013-2016); Darkroom (2012), by Lila Quintero Weaver, in which the author recalls her Argentinian father's participation in the movement and her childhood as an immigrant in the South; the bestseller The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long, Jim Demonakos, and Nate Powell (2012), set in Houston's Third Ward in 1967; and Howard Cruse's Stuck Rubber Baby (1995), whose protagonist is a closeted gay man involved in the movement. In choosing these five works, Jorge Santos also explores how this medium allows readers to participate in collective memory making, and what the books reveal about the process by which history is (re)told, (re)produced, and (re)narrativized. Concluding the work is Santos's interview with Ho Che Anderson.

Series statement

1. World comics and graphic nonfiction series

Uniform title

1. World comics and graphic nonfiction series.

Subject

1. Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
2. Graphic novels -- History and criticism
3. Civil rights movements in literature
4. Civil rights movements in art
5. Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- In art
6. Civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc
7. Comic books, strips, etc
8. Graphic novels

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction. Graphic memories in "black and white" -- The icon of the once and future King -- Bleeding histories on the march -- On photo-graphic narrative : "to look -- really look" into the darkroom -- The silence of our friends and memories of Houston's civil rights history -- Tropes, transfer, trauma : the lynching imagery of stuck rubber baby -- Epilogue. Cyclops was right: X-lives matter! -- Appendix. A conversation with Ho Che Anderson, author-artist of King.

Call number

1. Sc E 19-1378

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.

Author

1. Santos, Jorge, 1980- author.

Title

1. Graphic memories of the civil rights movement : reframing history in comics / Jorge J. Santos, Jr.

Publisher

1. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019.

Copyright date

1. ©2019

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. World comics and graphic nonfiction series
2. World comics and graphic nonfiction series.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.

LCCN

1. 2018034573

ISBN

1. 9781477318263 hardcover alkaline paper
2. 1477318267 hardcover alkaline paper
3. 9781477318270 paperback alkaline paper
4. 1477318275 paperback alkaline paper

Research call number

1. Sc E 19-1378