Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives Comics at the Crossroads [Paperback]

This book brings together an international group of scholars who chart and analyze the ways in which comic book history and new forms of graphic narrative have negotiated the aesthetic, social, political, economic, and cultural interactions that reach across national borders in an increasingly interconnected and globalizing world. Exploring the tendencies of graphic narratives - from popular comic book serials and graphic novels to manga - to cross national and cultural boundaries,Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narrativesaddresses a previously marginalized area in comics studies. By placing graphic narratives in the global flow of cultural production and reception, the book investigates controversial representations of transnational politics, examines transnational adaptations of superhero characters, and maps many of the translations and transformations that have come to shape contemporary comics culture on a global scale.

Notes on the Contributors

Foreword, John A. Lent

Introducing Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads,Shane Denson, Christina Meyer, Daniel Stein

Part I: Politics and Poetics

1) Not Just a Theme: Transnationalism and Form in Visual Narratives of U.S. Slavery,Michael A. Chaney

2) Transnational Identity as Shape-shifting: Metaphor and Cultural Resonance in Gene Luen Yang'sAmerican Born Chinese,Elisabeth El Refaie

3) Cosmopolitan Suspicion: Comics Journalism and Graphic Silence,Georgiana Banita

4) Staging Cosmopolitanism: The Transnational Encounter in Joe Sacco'sFootnotes in Gaza,Aryn Bartley

5) Trying to Recapture the Front : A Transnational Perspective on Hawaii in R. Kikuo Johnson'sNight Fisher,Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt

6) Folding Nations, Cutting Borders: Transnationalism in the Comics of Warren Craghead III,Daniel W?llner

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