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 Lucķa 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 books 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.
Foreword: Comics as Movement; Comics as Planetary Healing Introduction:
In the Shadow of Liberty: Immigration and the Graphic Space Part 1: Shaping
Comic Traditions, Portraying Immigrants
1. Of Birds and Men: Metonymic and
Symbolic Representations of Immigration in Shaun Tans The Arrival
2. "How
Quickly We Forget": Immigration and Family Narrative in James Sturm's The
Golem's Mighty Swing and Unstable Molecules
3. Postcards from the Past: The
1893 Chicago World Fair and Chris Wares Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on
Earth
4. From Immigrants to Filibusters: The Curious Case of R. F. Outcault's
The Yellow Kid
5. Naming the Place and Telling the Story in Demain, demain:
Nanterre, bidonville de la Folie, 19621966 by Laurent Maffre
6. More than a
Cockroach: Dreaming and Surviving in Will Eisner's A Life Force
7. Stranded
by Empire: The Forced Migrants of Shirato Sanpei's Kieyuku sho-jo Part II:
Border Crossings, Immigrant Identity
8. Once Upon a Time on the Border:
Immigration and Mexican Comic Book Westerns
9. Picturing the (Silent) History
of Immigration in France and in French Bandes Dessinées
10. Brodecks Report
(Manu Larcenet): A Study in Intermediality
11. Migra Mouse: Immigration,
Satire, and Hybridity as Latino/a Decolonial Acts
12. Tracing Trauma:
Questioning Understanding of Clandestine Migration in Amazigh: itinéraire
dhommes libres
13. Immigration, Photography, and the Color Line in Lila
Quintero Weavers Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White
14. African Diaspora
and Black Bodies: X-Mens Storm
Nhora Lucķa Serrano is the Associate Director for Digital Learning & Research at Hamilton College, New York. Originally from Colombia, and previously a Visiting Scholar of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, Dr. Serrano is a trained Medieval and Early Modern Visual Studies scholar, who was the recipient of a 2018 Mellon Press Diversity Fellowship at the MIT Press, a 2017 NEH Summer Institute fellowship at the Newberry Library, and a 2014 Smithsonian National Postal Museum fellowship. Dr. Serrano is a founding member and currently the Treasurer of the Comics Studies Society, and from 20142018, she served on the MLA Executive Forum on Comics and Graphic Narratives. Presently, Dr. Serrano is an MLA Delegate Assembly Member and she serves on the MLA Executive Discussion Group on Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography.
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