Drawing new color lines : transnational Asian American graphic narratives / edited by Monica Chiu.

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"The global circulation of comics, manga, and other such visual mediums between North America and Asia produces transnational meanings no longer rooted in a separation between 'Asian' and 'American.' Drawing New Color Lines explores the culture, production, and history of contemporary graphic narrat...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Global connections (Hong Kong University Press)
Other Authors: Chiu, Monica, 1965- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2015]
Series:Global connections (Hong Kong University Press)
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Graphic novels > United States.
Asian Americans in literature.
United States > Relations > Asia.
Asia > Relations > United States.
Asian Americans in comic books, strips, etc.
Physical Description:xiv, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : visual realities of race / Monica Chiu
  • Comics, caricatures, and race in North America. A moment outside of time : the visual life of homosexuality and race in Tamaki and Tamaki's Skim / Monica Chiu
  • Asian/American postethnic subjectivity in Derek Kirk Kim's Good as lily, Same difference and other stories, and Tune / Ruth Y. Hsu
  • The model minority between medical school and Nintendo : Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham's Level up / Lan Dong
  • In plain sight : reading the racial surfaces of Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings / Ralph E. Rodriguez
  • North American representations of race across the Pacific. When the Monkey King travels across the pacific and back : reading Gene Luen Yang's American born Chinese in China / Kuilan Liu
  • "Maybe it's time for a little history lesson here" : autographics and Ann Marie Fleming's The magical life of Long Tack Sam / Stacilee Ford
  • Emotions as landscapes : specters of Asian American racialization in Shaun Tan's graphic narratives / Jeffrey Santa Ana
  • From fan activism to graphic narrative : culture and race in Gene Luen Yang's Avatar : The last airbender
  • the promise / Tim Gruenewald
  • (Re)collecting Vietnam : Vietnamization, soldier remorse, and Marvel Comics / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
  • The awesome and mundane adventures of Flor de Manila y San Francisco / Catherine Ceniza Choy
  • Manga Goes West and Returns. The "Japaneseness" of OEL manga : on Japanese American comics artists and manga style / Angela Moreno Acosta
  • Manga-fying Yang's American born Chinese / Angela Moreno Acosta (illustration) and Jaqueline Berndt (text)
  • Skim as girl : reading a Japanese North American graphic novel through manga lenses / Jaqueline Berndt
  • Queering manga : eating queerly in 12 days / Laura Anh Williams
  • Conveying new material realities : transnational popular culture in Asian American comics / Shan Mu Zhao.