[Comicsstudiessociety] IJOCA book for review - Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia

[Mike Rhode]

Thank you all for your replies, but the book has been claimed.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:56 PM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> We've got a review e-book of this, which is available to the first person
> to write to me directly at mrhode at gmail.com
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> Mike Rhode
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> *Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia *by
> Frederick Luis Aldama is now available from the University Press of
> Mississippi.
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> Cultural works by and about Indigenous identities, histories, and
> experiences circulate far and wide. However, not all films, animation,
> television shows, and comic books lead to a nuanced understanding of
> Indigenous realities.
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> Acclaimed comics scholar Frederick Luis Aldama shines light on how
> mainstream comics have clumsily distilled and reconstructed Indigenous
> identities and experiences. He and contributors emphasize how Indigenous
> comic artists are themselves clearing new visual-verbal narrative spaces
> for articulating more complex histories, cultures, experiences, and
> narratives of self.
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> To that end, Aldama brings together scholarship that explores both the
> representation and misrepresentation of Indigenous subjects and experiences
> as well as research that analyzes and highlights the extraordinary work of
> Indigenous comic artists. Among others, the book examines Daniel Parada’s
> *Zotz*, Puerto Rican comics *Turey el Taíno* and *La Borinqueña*, and *Moonshot:
> The Indigenous Comics Collection*.
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> This volume’s wide-armed embrace of comics by and about Indigenous peoples
> of the Americas and Australasia is a first step to understanding how the
> histories of colonial and imperial domination connect the violent wounds
> that still haunt across continents. Aldama and contributors resound this
> message: Indigeneity in comics is an important, powerful force within our
> visual-verbal narrative arts writ large.
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> Contributions included are by Joshua T. Anderson, Chad A. Barbour, Susan
> Bernardin, Mike Borkent, Jeremy M. Carnes, Philip Cass, Jordan Clapper,
> James J. Donahue, Dennin Ellis, Jessica Fontaine, Jonathan Ford, Lee
> Francis IV, Enrique García, Javier García Liendo, Brenna Clarke Gray, Brian
> Montes, Arij Ouweneel, Kevin Patrick, Candida Rifkind, Jessica Rutherford,
> and Jorge Santos.
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