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The Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic Novel explores the important role of the graphic novel in reflecting American society and in the shaping of the American imagination. Using key examples, this volume reviews the historical development of various subgenres within the graphic novel tradition and examines how graphic novelists have created multiple and different accounts of the American experience, including that of African American, Asian American, Jewish, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ communities. Reading the American graphic novel opens a debate on how major works have changed the idea of America from that once found in the quintessential action or superhero comics to show new, different, intimate accounts of historical change as well as social and individual, personal experience. It guides readers through the theoretical text-image scholarship to explain the meaning of the complex borderlines between graphic novels, comics, newspaper strips, caricature, literature, and art.
Contents
Introduction: what is the American graphic novel? Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey and Fabrice Leroy; Part I. History and Genre: 1. The 'First' graphic novel in America: revisiting he done her wrong and it rhymes with Lust Livio Belloï; 2. The Mad-Men generation: Kurtzman and Feiffer Fabrice Leroy; 3. From Justin Green and art Spiegelman to Alison Bechdel: writing the self in the graphic novel Jan Baetens; 4. Graphic journalism Laurike in 't Veld; 5. 'Great' American graphic novels: Canon formation and literary value Daniel Stein and Astrid Böger; 6. Crime: From EC comics to Ed Brubaker Andrew J. Kunka; 7. Superheroes in graphic novels Marc Singer; 8. Science fiction and fantasy: new works of imagination Ian Hague; 9. 'Scared Witless': war in the American graphic novel Hugo Frey; Part II. Graphic Novels and the Quest for an American Diversity: 10. Expressions of Jewishness alongside grief in American graphic novels Tahneer Oksman; 11. Black looking and looking black: African American cartoon aesthetics Joanna Davis-McElligatt; 12. African American new history-writing in graphic novels Michael A. Chaney; 13. Coming to America, 'Land of the Free': Asian American representations in graphic narrative Monica Chiu; 14. Spatiotemporal projections: Los Bros Hernandez, Fantagraphics and the rise of Latinx creating and reading communities Frederick Luis Aldama; 15. Queer graphic novels: a paradigm of paradox Alison Halsall; 16. American women's lives in graphic novels: becoming and unbecoming women Martha Kuhlman.
