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Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels

2014-11-20 Social Science
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Release : 2014-11-20
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels by : Carolene Ayaka

Download or read book Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels written by Carolene Ayaka. This book was released on 2014-11-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels

2014-11-20 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2014-11-20
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 159/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels by : Carolene Ayaka

Download or read book Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels written by Carolene Ayaka. This book was released on 2014-11-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Comics and Graphic Novels

2022-09-22 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2022-09-22
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Comics and Graphic Novels by : Julia Round

Download or read book Comics and Graphic Novels written by Julia Round. This book was released on 2022-09-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major research trends, debates and ideas that have emerged in Comics Studies over the past decades. Interdisciplinary and international in its scope, the critical approaches on offer spread across a wide range of strands, from the formal and the ideological to the historical, literary and cultural. Its concise chapters provide accessible introductions to comics methodologies, comics histories and cultures across the world, high-profile creators and titles, insights from audience and fan studies, and important themes and genres, such as autobiography and superheroes. It also surveys the alternative and small press alongside general reference works and textbooks on comics. Each chapter is complemented by list of key reference works.

Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature

2022-04-07 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2022-04-07
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature by : James Hodapp

Download or read book Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature written by James Hodapp. This book was released on 2022-04-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic narratives are one of the world's great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United States dominate scholarly conversations about them. Building upon the little extant scholarship on graphic narratives from the Global South, this collection moves beyond a narrow Western approach to this quickly expanding field. By focusing on texts from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, these essays expand the study of graphic narratives to a global scale. Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature is also interested in how these texts engage with, fit in with, or complicate notions of World Literature. The larger theoretical framework of World Literature is joined with the postcolonial, decolonial, Global South, and similar approaches that argue explicitly or implicitly for the viability of non-Western graphic narratives on their own terms. Ultimately, this collection explores the ways that the unique formal qualities of graphic narratives from the Global South intersect with issues facing the study of international literatures, such as translation, commodification, circulation, Orientalism, and many others.

Comics and the Senses

2014-01-10 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2014-01-10
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Comics and the Senses by : Ian Hague

Download or read book Comics and the Senses written by Ian Hague. This book was released on 2014-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to define what comics are and explain how they work have not always been successful because they are premised upon the idea that comic strips, comic books and graphic novels are inherently and almost exclusively visual. This book challenges that premise, and asserts that comics is not just a visual medium. The book outlines the multisensory aspects of comics: the visual, audible, tactile, olfactory and gustatory elements of the medium. It rejects a synaesthetic approach (by which all the senses are engaged through visual stimuli) and instead argues for a truly multisensory model by which the direct stimulation of the reader’s physical senses can be understood. A wide range of examples demonstrates how multisensory communication systems work in both commercial and more experimental contexts. The book concludes with a case study that looks at the works of Alan Moore and indicates areas of interest that multisensory analysis can draw out, but which are overlooked by more conventional approaches.

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