UID:
edoccha_9960955696402883
Format:
1 online resource (217 pages)
Content:
Demonstrates how contemporary Asian American creators employ graphic narrative to counter harmful misrepresentations and show Asian Americans as complex, nuanced individuals.
Note:
Introduction: Asian American literature and Asian American graphic novels / Eleanor Ty -- Countervisualizing barbed wire, guard towers, and latrines in George Takei and Harmony Becker's They called us enemy / Monica Chiu -- Ethics of storytelling: teaching Thi Bui's The best we could do / Stella Oh and erin Khuê Ninh -- Bitch Planet's Meiko Maki is down for justice! / Jeanette Roan -- Anachronistic figures and counternarratives: comics as a subversive form in American born Chinese and Johnny Hiro / Jin Lee -- "A Storm of a Girl Silently Gathering Force": peminist girlhoods in the comics of Trinidad Escobar and Malaka Gharib / Melinda Luisa de Jesús -- Questioning the "look" of normalcy and the borders of South/Asian Americans: Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, and the comic superhero / Shilpa Davé -- (Un)masking a Chinese American superhero: Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew's The shadow hero / Lan Dong -- Posthumanist critique in Jillian Tamaki's Boundless / Eleanor Ty -- Drawing disease and disability: ethical optics and space in Adrian Tomine's Killing and dying / Stella Oh.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8142-5851-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8142-1494-0
Language:
English
