Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis

ISBN-13: 9781138186156 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 248 str.

Nhora Lucia Serrano

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This interdisciplinary, themed anthology focuses on the depiction of immigrants in cartoons, comics, and graphic novels across diverse cultures and time periods, as they navigate new socio-political milieux. It seeks to interrogate how immigration is portrayed in comics and how the "immigrant" was an indispensable and vital trope to the development of the comics medium in the twentieth century.

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Foreword: Comics as Movement; Comics as Planetary Healing Introduction: In the Shadow of Liberty: Immigration and the Graphic Space  Part 1: Shaping Comic Traditions, Portraying Immigrants  1. Of Birds and Men: Metonymic and Symbolic Representations of Immigration in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival 2. "How Quickly We Forget": Immigration and Family Narrative in James Sturm's The Golem's Mighty Swing and Unstable Molecules 3. Postcards from the Past: The 1893 Chicago World Fair and Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth 4. From Immigrants to Filibusters: The Curious Case of R. F. Outcault's The Yellow Kid 5. Naming the Place and Telling the Story in Demain, demain: Nanterre, bidonville de la Folie, 1962—1966 by Laurent Maffre 6. More than a Cockroach: Dreaming and Surviving in Will Eisner's A Life Force 7. Stranded by Empire: The Forced Migrants of Shirato Sanpei's Kieyuku sho-jo Part II: Border Crossings, Immigrant Identity  8. Once Upon a Time on the Border: Immigration and Mexican Comic Book Westerns 9. Picturing the (Silent) History of Immigration in France and in French Bandes Dessinées 10. Brodeck’s Report (Manu Larcenet): A Study in Intermediality 11. Migra Mouse: Immigration, Satire, and Hybridity as Latino/a Decolonial Acts 12. Tracing Trauma: Questioning Understanding of Clandestine Migration in Amazigh: itinéraire d’hommes libres 13. Immigration, Photography, and the Color Line in Lila Quintero Weaver’s Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White 14. African Diaspora and Black Bodies: X-Men’s Storm