Redrawing the historical past : history, memory, and multiethnic graphic novels / edited by Martha J. Cutter & Cathy J. Schlund-Vials.

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9780820352022
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Introduction : "redrawing the historical past : history, memory, and multiethnic graphic novels" / Martha J. Cutter and Cathy J. Schlund-Vials -- "Redrawing race : renovations of the graphic and narrative history of racial passing in Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece's Incognegro" / Martha J. Cutter -- Nostalgic realism : fantasy, history, and Brer Rabbit--trickster ambiguity in Jeremy Love's Bayou" / Taylor Hagood -- "Teaching history through and as Asian/American popular culture in Gene Luen Yang's Boxers and saints" / Caroline Kyungah Hong -- "Who needs a Chinese American superhero? Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew's The Shadow hero as Asian American historiography" / Monica Chiu -- "Stuck rubber baby and the intersections of civil rights historical memory" / Julie Buckner Armstrong -- "On photo-graphic narrative : 'to look--really look' into Lila Quintero Weaver's Darkroom" / Jorge Santos -- "Environmental graphic memory : remembering the natural world and revising history in Vietnamerica" / Jeffrey Santa Ana -- "Illustrating diaspora : history and memory in Vietnamese American and French graphic novels" / Catherine H. Nguyen -- "Punking the 1990s : Cristy C. Road's historical salvage project in Spit and passion" / Angela Laflen -- "Speculative fictions, historical reckonings, and 'what could have been' : Scott McCloud's The New adventures of Abraham Lincoln" / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials -- "Fractured innocence in G. Neri and Randy DuBurke's Yummy : the last days of a southside shorty / Katharine Capshaw -- "Art Spiegelman and the caricature archive" / Jennifer Glaser.

Summary: Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and memory in multiethnic graphic novels. Such interplay enables a new understanding of the past. The twelve essays explore Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece's Incognegro, Gene Luen Yang's Boxers and Saints, GB Tran's Vietnamerica, Scott McCloud's The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln, Art Spiegelman's post-Mauswork, and G. Neri and Randy Du Burke's Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, among many others. The collection represents an original body of criticism about recently published works that have received scant scholarly attention. The chapters confront issues of history and memory in contemporary multiethnic graphic novels, employing diverse methodologies and approaches while adhering to three main guidelines. First, using a global lens, contributors reconsider the concept of history and how it is manifest in their chosen texts. Second, contributors consider the ways in which graphic novels, as a distinct genre, can formally renovate or intervene in notions of the historical past. Third, contributors take seriously the possibilities and limitations of these historical revisions with regard to envisioning new, different, or even more positive versions of both the present and future. As a whole, the volume demonstrates that graphic novelists use the open and flexible space of the graphic narrative page-in which readers can move not only forward but also backward, upward, downward, and in several other directions-to present history as an open realm of struggle that is continually being revised.-- Provided by Publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-337) and index.

Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and memory in multiethnic graphic novels. Such interplay enables a new understanding of the past. The twelve essays explore Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece's Incognegro, Gene Luen Yang's Boxers and Saints, GB Tran's Vietnamerica, Scott McCloud's The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln, Art Spiegelman's post-Mauswork, and G. Neri and Randy Du Burke's Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, among many others. The collection represents an original body of criticism about recently published works that have received scant scholarly attention. The chapters confront issues of history and memory in contemporary multiethnic graphic novels, employing diverse methodologies and approaches while adhering to three main guidelines. First, using a global lens, contributors reconsider the concept of history and how it is manifest in their chosen texts. Second, contributors consider the ways in which graphic novels, as a distinct genre, can formally renovate or intervene in notions of the historical past. Third, contributors take seriously the possibilities and limitations of these historical revisions with regard to envisioning new, different, or even more positive versions of both the present and future. As a whole, the volume demonstrates that graphic novelists use the open and flexible space of the graphic narrative page-in which readers can move not only forward but also backward, upward, downward, and in several other directions-to present history as an open realm of struggle that is continually being revised.-- Provided by Publisher.

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