Drawing the Past, Volume 1: Comics and the Historical Imagination in the United States

Author:   Dorian Alexander ,  Michael Goodrum ,  Philip Smith
Publisher:   University Press of Mississippi
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9781496837165


Pages:   270
Publication Date:   30 January 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Dorian Alexander ,  Michael Goodrum ,  Philip Smith
Publisher:   University Press of Mississippi
Imprint:   University Press of Mississippi
Weight:   0.413kg
ISBN:  

9781496837165


ISBN 10:   1496837169
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   30 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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This enjoyable collection of essays illustrates America as a fluid construction politically, historically, and culturally. The essays perform a tricky tightrope walk between knowledge of comics and their production, comics form, and history.--Joan Ormrod, author of Wonder Woman: The Female Body and Popular Culture and editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics


This enjoyable collection of essays illustrates America as a fluid construction politically, historically, and culturally. The essays perform a tricky tightrope walk between knowledge of comics and their production, comics form, and history.


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"Dorian Alexander is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Washington. Their work focuses on the relationship between revolutionary ideology and fantastical literature, with an emphasis on queerness and historical representation. They write comics on a variety of topics for The Nib. Michael Goodrum is senior lecturer in modern history at Canterbury Christ Church University and the coconvenor of the TORCH Oxford Comics Network. He is author of Superheroes and American Self Image: From War to Watergate and Printing Terror. He is coeditor of ""Firefly"" Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon’s Classic Series and Gender and the Superhero Narrative, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi. Philip Smith is associate chair of liberal arts and professor of English at Savannah College of Art and Design. He is author of Reading Art Spiegelman and Shakespeare in Singapore: Performance, Education, and Culture. He is coeditor of The Struggle for Understanding: Elie Wiesel’s Literary Works and Gender and the Superhero Narrative, published by University Press of Mississippi."

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