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Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-1-13-802515-8 BibTeX citation key: Ayaka2014 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Collection of essays, Interculturalism Creators: Ayaka, Hague Publisher: Routledge (London, New York) |
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Multiculturalism, and its representation, has long presented challenges for the medium of comics. 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. Taking a truly international perspective, the book brings into dialogue a broad range of comics traditions.
Table of Contents List of Illustrations (xi) Carolene Ayaka and Ian Hague: Introduction: Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels (1) Part 1: Histories and Contexts Part 2: Depicting Difference Part 3: Monstrosity and Otherness Part 4: Challenging Assumptions Part 5: Case Studies Contributors (257) |