Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads

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This book brings together an international group of scholars who chart and analyze the ways in which comic book history and new forms of graphic narrative have negotiated the aesthetic, social, political, economic, and cultural interactions that reach across national borders in an increasingly interconnected and globalizing world. Exploring the tendencies of graphic narratives - from popular comic book serials and graphic novels to manga - to cross national and cultural boundaries, Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives addresses a previously marginalized area in comics studies. By placing graphic narratives in the global flow of cultural production and reception, the book investigates controversial representations of transnational politics, examines transnational adaptations of superhero characters, and maps many of the translations and transformations that have come to shape contemporary comics culture on a global scale.

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Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives offers a wealth of concepts and perspectives for the study of the transnational in comics research [and] signals the arrival of the transnational turn in comics studies. * Ralf Kauranen, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2013) *
This useful and penetrating collection of essays by a suitably international array of scholars seeks, in the words of its editors, to chart the ways in which graphic narratives have been shaped by aesthetic, social, political, economic and cultural interactions that reach across national boundaries in an interconnected and globalizing world. It does that and more, presenting sixteen insightful analyses situating the practice and circulation of graphic narrative within a global flow of cultural processes that privileges hybridity and the porousness of borders ... The contributions, by specialists in English, American studies, media studies and communications, are consistently illuminating and well written ... Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives advances a very welcome interdisciplinary, cross-border perspective to the study of graphic narrative. -- Jos Alaniz, University of Washington * European Comic Art *
Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives is an essential volume for both comics scholars and scholars of literature in general, because it places the most popular emerging medium in conversation with cutting-edge contemporary scholarship, and makes a strong case for the ways in which comics are necessary in considerations of a transnational, cosmopolitan 21st century world. -- Kate Polak * ImageTexT *

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Shane Denson is Assistant Professor/Post-Doc Research Associate in American Studies at Leibniz Universitt Hannover, Germany. He has published on a range of topics in film and media studies. Christina Meyer is Assistant Professor/Post-Doc Research Associate in American Studies at Leibniz Universitt Hannover, Germany. She is the author of War and Trauma Images in Vietnam War Representations (2008). Daniel Stein is Assistant Professor/Post-Doc Research Associate at the John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany. He is the author of Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz (2012) and co-editor of From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative (2013).