Martha J. Cutter (Editor) MARTHA J. CUTTER is a professor of English and Africana studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of
Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity and
Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women’s Writing, 1850–1930.
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (Editor) CATHY J. SCHLUND-VIALS is a professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of
Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing and
War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work.
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-Maus work, and G. Neri and Randy DuBurke’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 manifestló–
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