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Transnational perspectives on graphic narratives : comics at the crossroads

By Daniel Stein (editor); Shane Denson (editor); Christina Meyer (editor)

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2014
ISBN
9781441185754, 1441185755, 9781472587589, 1472587588
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8271793 bytes)
Pages
\311
Time added
2022-05-01 10:21:01

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Cover HalfTitle Series Title Copyright Contents Notes on the Contributors Foreword Introducing Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads Intersections: Comics and transnationalism—transnationalism and comics From an international to a transnational perspective Premises, promises, pitfalls Part I Politics and Poetics 1 Not Just a Theme: Transnationalism and Form in Visual Narratives of US Slavery 2 Transnational Identity as Shape-Shifting: Metaphor and Cultural Resonance in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese Introduction Cultural identity, metaphor, and embodiment Cultural allusions and resonances Conclusion 3 Cosmopolitan Suspicion: Comics Journalism and Graphic Silence Still life with children “Freedom is slavery”: Guy Delisle “War is peace”: Joe Sacco “Ignorance is strength”: Jean-Philippe Stassen and Ari Folman 4 Staging Cosmopolitanism: The Transnational Encounter in Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza Joe Sacco as a civic model The encounter (I): Universal empathy The encounter (II): The violence of empathy The encounter (III): Cosmopolitan documentation 5 “Trying to Recapture the Front”: A Transnational Perspective on Hawaii in R. Kikuo Johnson’s Night Fisher Image and imagination in the construction of the exotic Society, ecology, and the search for roots 6 Folding Nations, Cutting Borders: Transnationalism in the Comics of Warren Craghead III Going transnational Crossing the Atlantic Folding the Arab Spring Conclusion Part II Transnational and Transcultural Superheroes 7 Batman Goes Transnational: The Global Appropriation and Distribution of an American Hero Introduction: On the scope of Batman as a transnational icon The Nightrunner primer Transcultural influence Transnational relations Conclusion: The not-so-American icons 8 Spider-Man India: Comic Books and the Translating/Transcreating of American Cultural Narratives The narratives of transnational and transcultural exchange Spider-Man and American/global identity Interrogating the transcreation of Spider-Man India The problematic transcreation of heroic origins Conclusion 9 Of Transcreations and Transpacific Adaptations: Investigating Manga Versions of Spider-Man Ryoichi Ikegami: Spider-Man the Manga Yamanaka Akira: Spider-Man J Kaare Andrews: Spider-Man Mangaverse Conclusion 10 Warren Ellis: Performing the Transnational Author in the American Comics Mainstream 11 “Truth, Justice, and the Islamic Way”:1 Conceiving the Cosmopolitan Muslim Superhero in The 99 The making of a Muslim media franchise Fighting for truth, justice, international harmony, and cooperation The team-up as a transnational experience Part III Translations, Transformations, Migrations 12 Lost in Translation: Narratives of Transcultural Displacement in the Wordless Graphic Novel 13 Hard-Boiled Silhouettes: Transnational Remediation and the Art of Omission in Frank Miller’s Sin City Remediating film noir Remediating sound effects and wordless woodcuts Remediating silent film Conclusion 14 The “Big Picture” as a Multitude of Fragments: Jason Lutes’s Depiction of Weimar Republic Berlin Out of many individuals: The multitude of stories Out of many comics: The multitude of styles E pluribus pluria 15 “Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together”: The Cultural Crossovers of Bryan Lee O’Malley 16 A Disappointing Crossing: The North American Reception of Asterix and Tintin From BD to comics Readers The dialectics of market and culture Afterword: Framing, Unframing, Reframing: Retconning the Transnational Work of Comics Toward a media-theoretical backstory: The frame Of sequences, series, and states: Unframing and reframing Conclusion, or: To be continued . . . Index

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