Transnational perspectives on graphic narratives : comics at the crossroads

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Foreword
Introducing Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads
	Intersections: Comics and transnationalism—transnationalism and comics
	From an international to a transnational perspective
	Premises, promises, pitfalls
Part I Politics and Poetics
	1 Not Just a Theme: Transnationalism and Form in Visual Narratives of US Slavery
	2 Transnational Identity as Shape-Shifting: Metaphor and Cultural Resonance in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese
		Introduction
		Cultural identity, metaphor, and embodiment
		Cultural allusions and resonances
		Conclusion
	3 Cosmopolitan Suspicion: Comics Journalism and Graphic Silence
		Still life with children
		“Freedom is slavery”: Guy Delisle
		“War is peace”: Joe Sacco
		“Ignorance is strength”: Jean-Philippe Stassen and Ari Folman
	4 Staging Cosmopolitanism: The Transnational Encounter in Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza
		Joe Sacco as a civic model
		The encounter (I): Universal empathy
		The encounter (II): The violence of empathy
		The encounter (III): Cosmopolitan documentation
	5 “Trying to Recapture the Front”: A Transnational Perspective on Hawaii in R. Kikuo Johnson’s Night Fisher
		Image and imagination in the construction of the exotic
		Society, ecology, and the search for roots
	6 Folding Nations, Cutting Borders: Transnationalism in the Comics of Warren Craghead III
		Going transnational
		Crossing the Atlantic
		Folding the Arab Spring
		Conclusion
Part II Transnational and Transcultural Superheroes
	7 Batman Goes Transnational: The Global Appropriation and Distribution of an American Hero
		Introduction: On the scope of Batman as a transnational icon
		The Nightrunner primer
		Transcultural influence
		Transnational relations
		Conclusion: The not-so-American icons
	8 Spider-Man India: Comic Books and the Translating/Transcreating of American Cultural Narratives
		The narratives of transnational and transcultural exchange
		Spider-Man and American/global identity
		Interrogating the transcreation of Spider-Man India
		The problematic transcreation of heroic origins
		Conclusion
	9 Of Transcreations and Transpacific Adaptations: Investigating Manga Versions of Spider-Man
		Ryoichi Ikegami: Spider-Man the Manga
		Yamanaka Akira: Spider-Man J
		Kaare Andrews: Spider-Man Mangaverse
		Conclusion
	10 Warren Ellis: Performing the Transnational Author in the American Comics Mainstream
	11 “Truth, Justice, and the Islamic Way”:1 Conceiving the Cosmopolitan Muslim Superhero in The 99
		The making of a Muslim media franchise
		Fighting for truth, justice, international harmony, and cooperation
		The team-up as a transnational experience
Part III Translations, Transformations, Migrations
	12 Lost in Translation: Narratives of Transcultural Displacement in the Wordless Graphic Novel
	13 Hard-Boiled Silhouettes: Transnational Remediation and the Art of Omission in Frank Miller’s Sin City
		Remediating film noir
		Remediating sound effects and wordless woodcuts
		Remediating silent film
		Conclusion
	14 The “Big Picture” as a Multitude of Fragments: Jason Lutes’s Depiction of Weimar Republic Berlin
		Out of many individuals: The multitude of stories
		Out of many comics: The multitude of styles
		E pluribus pluria
	15 “Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together”: The Cultural Crossovers of Bryan Lee O’Malley
	16 A Disappointing Crossing: The North American Reception of Asterix and Tintin
		From BD to comics
		Readers
		The dialectics of market and culture
Afterword: Framing, Unframing, Reframing: Retconning the Transnational Work of Comics
	Toward a media-theoretical backstory: The frame
	Of sequences, series, and states: Unframing and reframing
	Conclusion, or: To be continued . . .
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