Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels
New York, London: Routledge (2015), xiii, 269 pp.
Contains illustrations, index
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies, 68
ISBN 978-1-138-02515-8 (hbk); 978-1-315-77534-0 (ebook)
"This book presents a wide ranging survey of the ways in which comics have dealt with the diversity of creators and characters and the (lack of) visibility for characters who don't conform to particular cultural stereotypes. Contributors engage with ethnicity and other cultural forms from Israel, Romania, North America, South Africa, Germany, Spain, U.S. Latino and Canada and consider the ways in which comics are able to represent multiculturalism through a focus on the formal elements of the medium. Discussion themes include education, countercultures, monstrosity, the quotidian, the notion of the "other," anthropomorphism, and colonialism." (Publisher description)
Introduction / Carolene Ayaka and Ian Hague
I. HISTORIES AND CONTEXTS
1 Multiculturalism Meets the Counterculture: Representing Racial Difference in Robert Crumb's Underground Comix / Corey K. Creekmur, 19
2 The Impact of Latino Identities and the Humanizing of Multiculturalism in Love and Rockets / Ana Merino, 34
3 The Presidential Penis: Questions of Race and Representation in South African Comic and Satirical Art / Andy Mason, 49
II. DEPICTING DIFFERENCE
4 Recognition and Resemblance: Facture, Imagination and Ideology in Depictions of Cultural and National Difference / Simon Grennan, 69
5 'Badgers? We don't need no steenkin' badgers!' Talbot's Grandville, Anthropomorphism and Multiculturalism / Mel Gibson, 83
6 The Image of the Foreigner in Historical Romanian Comics under Ceausescu's Dictatorship / Mihaela Precup, 96
III. MONSTROSITY AND OTHERNESS
7 The Monster Within and Without: Spanish Comics, Monstrosity, Religion, and Alterity / Sarah D. Harris, 113
8 Colonialist Heroes and Monstrous Others: Stereotype and Narrative Form in British Adventure Comic Books / Ian Horton, 130
9 Set Pieces: Cultural Appropriation and the Search for Contemporary Identities in Shonen Manga / Jacob Birken, 146
IV. CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS
10 Narrative Exploration against Mentality Issues: Indirect Education for Multiculturalism in Tintin / Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, 163
11 Embracing Childish Perspective: Rutu Modan's A Royal Banquet With the Queen / Lily Glasner, 177
V. CASE STUDIES
12 An Innocent at Home: Scott Pilgrim and His Canadian Multicultural Contexts / Brenna Clarke Gray and Peter Wilkins, 197
13 The Lower East Side as Mishmash of Jewish Women's Multicultural Images in Leela Corman's Unterzakhn / Dana Mihailescu, 212
14 They All Look Alike? Representations of East Asian Americans in Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings and Scenes from an Impending Marriage / Emma Oki, 228
15 Tulips and Roses in a Global Garden: Speaking Local Identities in Persepolis and Tekkon Kinkreet / Alex Link, 240
I. HISTORIES AND CONTEXTS
1 Multiculturalism Meets the Counterculture: Representing Racial Difference in Robert Crumb's Underground Comix / Corey K. Creekmur, 19
2 The Impact of Latino Identities and the Humanizing of Multiculturalism in Love and Rockets / Ana Merino, 34
3 The Presidential Penis: Questions of Race and Representation in South African Comic and Satirical Art / Andy Mason, 49
II. DEPICTING DIFFERENCE
4 Recognition and Resemblance: Facture, Imagination and Ideology in Depictions of Cultural and National Difference / Simon Grennan, 69
5 'Badgers? We don't need no steenkin' badgers!' Talbot's Grandville, Anthropomorphism and Multiculturalism / Mel Gibson, 83
6 The Image of the Foreigner in Historical Romanian Comics under Ceausescu's Dictatorship / Mihaela Precup, 96
III. MONSTROSITY AND OTHERNESS
7 The Monster Within and Without: Spanish Comics, Monstrosity, Religion, and Alterity / Sarah D. Harris, 113
8 Colonialist Heroes and Monstrous Others: Stereotype and Narrative Form in British Adventure Comic Books / Ian Horton, 130
9 Set Pieces: Cultural Appropriation and the Search for Contemporary Identities in Shonen Manga / Jacob Birken, 146
IV. CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS
10 Narrative Exploration against Mentality Issues: Indirect Education for Multiculturalism in Tintin / Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, 163
11 Embracing Childish Perspective: Rutu Modan's A Royal Banquet With the Queen / Lily Glasner, 177
V. CASE STUDIES
12 An Innocent at Home: Scott Pilgrim and His Canadian Multicultural Contexts / Brenna Clarke Gray and Peter Wilkins, 197
13 The Lower East Side as Mishmash of Jewish Women's Multicultural Images in Leela Corman's Unterzakhn / Dana Mihailescu, 212
14 They All Look Alike? Representations of East Asian Americans in Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings and Scenes from an Impending Marriage / Emma Oki, 228
15 Tulips and Roses in a Global Garden: Speaking Local Identities in Persepolis and Tekkon Kinkreet / Alex Link, 240
