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Mark Heimermann - Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics - 9781477311615 - V9781477311615
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Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics

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Description for Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics Hardback. Editor(s): Heimermann, Mark; Tullis, Brittany. Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JM; DSY; FZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 528.

Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault’s Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo, and Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie to Hergé’s Tintin (Belgium), José Escobar’s Zipi and Zape (Spain), and Wilhelm Busch’s Max and Moritz (Germany), iconic child characters have given both kids and adults not only hours of entertainment but also an important vehicle for exploring children’s lives and the sometimes challenging realities that surround them.

Bringing together comic studies and childhood studies, this pioneering collection of essays provides the first wide-ranging account of how children and childhood, as well as the larger cultural forces behind their representations, have been depicted in comics from the 1930s to the present. The authors address issues such as how comics reflect a spectrum of cultural values concerning children, sometimes even resisting dominant cultural constructions of childhood; how sensitive social issues, such as racial discrimination or the construction and enforcement of gender roles, can be explored in comics through the use of child characters; and the ways in which comics use children as metaphors for other issues or concerns. Specific topics discussed in the book include diversity and inclusiveness in Little Audrey comics of the 1950s and 1960s, the fetishization of adolescent girls in Japanese manga, the use of children to build national unity in Finnish wartime comics, and how the animal/child hybrids in Sweet Tooth act as a metaphor for commodification.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9781477311615
SKU
V9781477311615
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Ref
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About Mark Heimermann
Mark Heimermann holds a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Brittany Tullis is an assistant professor of Spanish and women and gender studies at St. Ambrose University.

Reviews for Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics
Picturing Childhood is a much needed and long-awaited interdisciplinary project that looks at representations of children throughout the history of comics.
Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature
This anthology will be extremely valuable for educators and students of children's comics; it is likely to trigger many important conversations about the intersections between comics and childhoods.
Jeunesse
Picturing Childhood is at its best when its contributors are exploring new ground and when they shine the spotlights of historical analysis and close reading on under-researched topics.
Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth

Goodreads reviews for Picturing Childhood: Youth in Transnational Comics


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