Immigrants and Comics

Immigrants and Comics is an interdisciplinary, themed anthology that focuses on how comics have played a crucial role in representing, constructing, and reifying the immigrant subject and the immigrant experience in popular global culture of the twentieth century.

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Nhora Lucía Serrano is the Associate Director for Digital Learning & Research at Hamilton College, New York. Originally from Colombia, and previously a Visiting Scholar of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, Dr. Serrano is a trained Medieval and Early Modern Visual Studies scholar, who was the recipient of a 2018 Mellon Press Diversity Fellowship at the MIT Press, a 2017 NEH Summer Institute fellowship at the Newberry Library, and a 2014 Smithsonian National Postal Museum fellowship. Dr. Serrano is a founding member and currently the Treasurer of the Comics Studies Society, and from 2014-2018, she served on the MLA Executive Forum on Comics and Graphic Narratives. Presently, Dr. Serrano is an MLA Delegate Assembly Member and she serves on the MLA Executive Discussion Group on Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography.

Klappentext

Immigrants and Comics is an interdisciplinary, themed anthology that focuses on how comics have played a crucial role in representing, constructing, and reifying the immigrant subject and the immigrant experience in popular global culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Nhora Lucía Serrano and a diverse group of contributors examine immigrant experience as they navigate new socio-political milieux in cartoons, comics, and graphic novels across cultures and time periods. They 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. At the heart of the book's interdisciplinary nexus is a critical framework steeped in the ideas of remembrance and commemoration, what Pierre Nora calls lieux de mémoire.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars in Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Ethnic Studies, Francophone Studies, American Studies, Hispanic Studies, art history, and museum studies.

Inhalt

Foreword: "Comics as Movement; Comics as Planetary Healing" Frederick Luis Aldama

Introduction: In the Shadow of Liberty: Immigration and the Graphic Space

Nhora Lucía Serrano

Part I: Shaping Comic Traditions, Portraying Immigrants

Chapter One: Of Birds and Men: Metonymic and Symbolic Representations of Immigration in Shaun Tan's The Arrival

Fabrice Leroy

Chapter Two: "How Quickly We Forget": Immigration and Family Narrative in James Sturm's The Golem's Mighty Swing and Unstable Molecules

Brian Cremins

Chapter Three: Postcards from the Past: The 1893 Chicago World Fair and Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

Nhora Lucía Serrano

Chapter Four: From Immigrants to Filibusters: The Curious Case of R. F. Outcault's Yellow Kid

David M. Ball

Chapter Five: Naming the Place and Telling the Story in Demain, demain: Nanterre, bidonville de la Folie, 1962-1966 by Laurent Maffre

Mark McKinney

Chapter Six: More than a Cockroach: Dreaming and Surviving in Will Eisner's A Life Force

Susan Kirtley

Chapter Seven: Stranded by Empire: The Forced Migrants in Shirato Sanpei's Kieyuku sho-jo

Nicholas Theisen

Part II: Border Crossings, Immigrant Identity

Chapter Eight: Once Upon a Time on the Border: Immigration and Mexican Comic Book Westerns

Christopher Conway

Chapter Nine: Picturing the (Silent) History of Immigration in France and in French Bandes Dessinées

Michelle Bumatay

Chapter Ten: Brodeck's Report (Manu Larcenet): A Study in Intermediality

Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey

Chapter Eleven: Migra Mouse: Satire and Hybridity as Latino/a Decolonial Acts

Mauricio Espinoza

Chapter Twelve: Tracing Trauma: Questioning Understanding of Clandestine Migration in *Amazigh: itinéraire d'hommes libres

• Catriona MacLeod

Chapter Thirteen: Immigration, Photography, and the Color Line in Lila Quintero Weaver's Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White

Candida Rifkind

Chapter Fourteen: African Diaspora and Black Bodies: X-Men's Storm

Johnathan Flowers