[Comicsstudiessociety] IJOCA review needed - : Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis, edited by Nhora Lucía Serrano.

[Mike Rhode]

The book has been claimed, thank you.

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 8:10 AM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> Worldwide offer because it'll be digital - first person to write to me at
> mrhode at gmail.com
>
> *Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and
> Mimesis
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.routledge.com/Immigrants-and-Comics-Graphic-Spaces-of-Remembrance-Transaction-and-Mimesis/Serrano/p/book/9781138186156__;!!KGKeukY!mo3TtYrBIv0PDxVvetfN48tTnC8nqQATsfvC1Qc7jx6JysPO_0ZY2rQPIVoiovE6l17s5q5GJ9rr$ >*,
> edited by Nhora Lucía Serrano.
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.routledge.com/Immigrants-and-Comics-Graphic-Spaces-of-Remembrance-Transaction-and-Mimesis/Serrano/p/book/9781138186156__;!!KGKeukY!mo3TtYrBIv0PDxVvetfN48tTnC8nqQATsfvC1Qc7jx6JysPO_0ZY2rQPIVoiovE6l17s5q5GJ9rr$ 
>
> Book Description
>
> *Immigrants and Comics* is an interdisciplinary, themed anthology that
> focuses on how comics have played a crucial role in representing,
> constructing, and reifying the immigrant subject and the immigrant
> experience in popular global culture of the twentieth and twenty-first
> centuries.
>
> Nhora Lucía Serrano and a diverse group of contributors examine immigrant
> experience as they navigate new socio-political milieux in cartoons,
> comics, and graphic novels across cultures and time periods. They
> interrogate how immigration is portrayed in comics and how the ‘immigrant’
> was an indispensable and vital trope to the development of the comics
> medium in the twentieth century. At the heart of the book‘s
> interdisciplinary nexus is a critical framework steeped in the ideas of
> remembrance and commemoration, what Pierre Nora calls *lieux de mémoire*.
>
> This book will be of interest to students and scholars in Visual Studies,
> Comparative Literature, English, Ethnic Studies, Francophone Studies,
> American Studies, Hispanic Studies, art history, and museum studies.
> Table of Contents
>
> *Foreword*
> Comics as Movement; Comics as Planetary Healing
> *Frederick Luis Aldama*
>
> *Introduction*
>
> In the Shadow of Liberty: Immigration and the Graphic Space
> *Nhora Lucía Serrano*
>
> *Part I: Shaping Comic Traditions, Portraying Immigrants*
>
> 1. Of Birds and Men: Metonymic and Symbolic Representations of Immigration
> in Shaun Tan’s *The Arrival*
> *Fabrice Leroy*
>
> 2. "How Quickly We Forget": Immigration and Family Narrative in James
> Sturm's *The Golem's Mighty Swing* and *Unstable Molecules*
> *Brian Cremins*
>
> 3. Postcards from the Past: The 1893 Chicago World Fair and Chris Ware’s *Jimmy
> Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth*
> *Nhora Lucía Serrano*
>
> 4. From Immigrants to Filibusters: The Curious Case of R. F. Outcault's *Yellow
> Kid*
> *David M. Ball*
>
> 5. Naming the Place and Telling the Story in *Demain, demain: Nanterre,
> bidonville de la Folie, 1962—1966* by Laurent Maffre
> *Mark McKinney*
>
> 6. More than a Cockroach: Dreaming and Surviving in Will Eisner's *A Life
> Force*
> *Susan Kirtley*
>
> 7. Stranded by Empire: The Forced Migrants in Shirato Sanpei's *Kieyuku
> sho-jo*
> *Nicholas Theisen*
>
> *Part II: Border Crossings, Immigrant Identity*
>
> 8. Once Upon a Time on the Border: Immigration and Mexican Comic Book
> Westerns
> *Christopher Conway*
>
> 9. Picturing the (Silent) History of Immigration in France and in French *Bandes
> Dessinées*
> *Michelle Bumatay*
>
> 10. *Brodeck’s Report* (Manu Larcenet): A Study in Intermediality
> *Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey*
>
> 11. *Migra Mouse*: Satire and Hybridity as Latino/a Decolonial Acts
> *Mauricio Espinoza*
>
> 12. Tracing Trauma: Questioning Understanding of Clandestine Migration in *Amazigh:
> itinéraire d’hommes libres*
> *Catriona MacLeod*
>
> 13. Immigration, Photography, and the Color Line in Lila Quintero Weaver’s *Darkroom:
> A Memoir in Black & White*
> *Candida Rifkind*
>
> 14. African Diaspora and Black Bodies: *X-Men*’s Storm
> *Johnathan Flowers*
>
>
>
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