George Herriman's black sentence : the legibility of race in Krazy Kat / Eyal Amiran.
"George Herriman, who passed for white, examines the place of color, both ink and ethnic marker, in the machinery of narrative. Color is necessary to narrative, but narrative conceals color, sentencing Herriman to perform his invisibility even as he relies on color to make this point."
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| Language: | English |
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[Winnipeg, Man. :
University of Manitoba Press,
2000]
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| Local Note: |
MSU : Gift of Eyal Amiran. |
| Physical Description: | Pages 57-79 : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Variant Title: |
Legibility of race in Krazy Kat. |
| Format: | Book |
| Summary: |
"George Herriman, who passed for white, examines the place of color, both ink and ethnic marker, in the machinery of narrative. Color is necessary to narrative, but narrative conceals color, sentencing Herriman to perform his invisibility even as he relies on color to make this point." |
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| Note: | Offprint from Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, volume 33, number 3 (Sept. 2000). "Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner." |
| Call Number: | PN6728.K7 Z5 A5 2000 |
| Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-79). |