Graphic memories of the civil rights movement : reframing history in comics / Jorge J. Santos, Jr.

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Main Author: Santos, Jorge, 1980- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:World comics and graphic nonfiction series.
Subjects:
Historical comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Civil rights movements in comic books, strips, etc.
Physical Description:xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction. Graphic memories in "black and white"
  • The icon of the once and future King
  • Bleeding histories on the march
  • On photo-graphic narrative : "to look
  • really look" into the darkroom
  • The silence of our friends and memories of Houston's civil rights history
  • Tropes, transfer, trauma : the lynching imagery of stuck rubber baby
  • Epilogue. Cyclops was right: X-lives matter!
  • Appendix. A conversation with Ho Che Anderson, author-artist of King.