The Content of Our Caricature : : African American Comic Art and Political Belonging / / Rebecca Wanzo.

Winner, 2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award, given by the Society for Cinema and Media StudiesWinner, 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Academic/Scholarly WorkHonorable Mention, 2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Cultur...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Postmillennial Pop ; 25
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 69 hts / 6 page color insert
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Image
  • Introduction: A Visual Grammar of Citizenship
  • 1 “Impussanations,” Coons, and Civic Ideals: A Black Comics Aesthetic
  • 2 The Revolutionary Body: Nat Turner, King, and Frozen Subjection
  • 3 Wearing Hero- Face: Melancholic Patriotism in Truth: Red, White & Black
  • 4 “The Only Thing Unamerican about Me Is the Treatment I Get!” Infantile Citizenship and the Situational Grotesque
  • 5 Rape and Race in the Gutter: Equal Opportunity Humor Aesthetics and Underground Comix
  • To Caricature, with Love: A Black Panther Coda
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author