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Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation
Sheena C Howard
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Description for Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation
Paperback.
Winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Work
Bringing together contributors from a wide-range of critical perspectives, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation is an analytic history of the diverse contributions of Black artists to the medium of comics. Covering comic books, superhero comics, graphic novels and cartoon strips from the early 20th century to the present, the book explores the ways in which Black comic artists have grappled with such themes as the Black experience, gender identity, politics and social media.
Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation introduces students to such ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441135285
SKU
V9781441135285
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Sheena C Howard
Sheena C. Howard is Assistant Professor at Rider University, USA. Ronald L. Jackson II is Professor of Communication at the University of Cincinnati, USA, and Past Editor of the academic journal Critical Studies in Media Communication. His many previous publications include Scripting the Black Masculine Body and Interpreting Tyler Perry
Reviews for Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation
Overall, Black Comics is an extremely well rounded and impressive work of scholarship. Though this book spans a wide breadth of critical perspectives on various Black comic creators, its critical inquiry is focused and sustained. … Black Comics is as an ambitious, essential text for any comics scholar and should be regarded as a canonical example of American comics scholarship. ... Read more