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Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic
novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first
collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and
memory in multiethnic graphic novels. Such interplay enables a new
understanding of the past. The twelve essays explore Mat Johnson
and Warren Pleece's Incognegro, Gene Luen Yang's Boxers and Saints,
GB Tran's Vietnamerica, Cristy C. Road's Spit and Passion, Scott
McCloud's The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln, Art Spiegelman's
post-Maus work, and G. Neri and Randy DuBurke's Yummy: The Last
Days of a Southside Shorty, among many others. The collection
represents an original body of criticism about recently published
works that have received scant scholarly attention. The chapters
confront issues of history and memory in contemporary multiethnic
graphic novels, employing diverse methodologies and approaches
while adhering to three main guidelines. First, using a global
lens, contributors reconsider the concept of history and how it is
manifest in their chosen texts. Second, contributors consider the
ways in which graphic novels, as a distinct genre, can formally
renovate or intervene in notions of the historical past. Third,
contributors take seriously the possibilities and limitations of
these historical revisions with regard to envisioning new,
different, or even more positive versions of both the present and
future. As a whole, the volume demonstrates that graphic novelists
use the open and flexible space of the graphic narrative page-in
which readers can move not only forward but also backward, upward,
downward, and in several other directions-to present history as an
open realm of struggle that is continually being revised.
Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic
novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first
collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and
memory in multiethnic graphic novels. Such interplay enables a new
understanding of the past. The twelve essays explore Mat Johnson
and Warren Pleece's Incognegro, Gene Luen Yang's Boxers and Saints,
GB Tran's Vietnamerica, Cristy C. Road's Spit and Passion, Scott
McCloud's The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln, Art Spiegelman's
post-Maus work, and G. Neri and Randy DuBurke's Yummy: The Last
Days of a Southside Shorty, among many others. The collection
represents an original body of criticism about recently published
works that have received scant scholarly attention. The chapters
confront issues of history and memory in contemporary multiethnic
graphic novels, employing diverse methodologies and approaches
while adhering to three main guidelines. First, using a global
lens, contributors reconsider the concept of history and how it is
manifest in their chosen texts. Second, contributors consider the
ways in which graphic novels, as a distinct genre, can formally
renovate or intervene in notions of the historical past. Third,
contributors take seriously the possibilities and limitations of
these historical revisions with regard to envisioning new,
different, or even more positive versions of both the present and
future. As a whole, the volume demonstrates that graphic novelists
use the open and flexible space of the graphic narrative page-in
which readers can move not only forward but also backward, upward,
downward, and in several other directions-to present history as an
open realm of struggle that is continually being revised.
Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in
constructing their male characters-heroes and villains-as in
envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received
very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men,
scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the
United States begin to sketch the outline of a new literary history
of women writing men in the English-speaking world from the
eighteenth century until today. By rediscovering forgotten texts,
rereading novels by high canonical female authors, refocusing the
interest in well-known novels, and analyzing contemporary narrative
constructions of masculinity, the contributing scholars demonstrate
that female authors create male characters every bit as complex as
their male counterparts. Using a variety of theoretical models and
coming to an equal variety of conclusions, the essays collected in
Women Constructing Men skilfully demonstrate that the topic of
female-authored masculinities not only allows scholars to re-read
and re-discover almost every novel ever written by a woman writer,
but also triggers reflections on a host of theoretical questions of
gender and genre. In re-examining these male characters across
literary history, these articles extend the feminist question of
"Who has the authority to create a female character?" to "Who has
the authority to create any character?".
Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in
constructing their male characters heroes and villains as in
envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received
very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men,
scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the
United States begin to sketch the outline of a new literary history
of women writing men in the English-speaking world from the
eighteenth century until today. By rediscovering forgotten texts,
rereading novels by high canonical female authors, refocusing the
interest in well-known novels, and analyzing contemporary narrative
constructions of masculinity, the contributing scholars demonstrate
that female authors create male characters every bit as complex as
their male counterparts. Using a variety of theoretical models and
coming to an equal variety of conclusions, the essays collected in
Women Constructing Men skilfully demonstrate that the topic of
female-authored masculinities not only allows scholars to re-read
and re-discover almost every novel ever written by a woman writer,
but also triggers reflections on a host of theoretical questions of
gender and genre. In re-examining these male characters across
literary history, these articles extend the feminist question of
"Who has the authority to create a female character?" to "Who has
the authority to create any character?.""
Gender is an exciting area of current research in the medical
humanities, and by combining the study of medical narratives with
theories of gender and sexuality, the essays in Gender Scripts in
Medicine and Narrative illustrate the power of gender stereotypes
to shape the way medicine is practiced and perceived. The chapters
of Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative investigate gendered
perceptions and representations of healers and patients in fiction,
memoir, popular literature, poetry, film, television, the history
of science, new media, and visual art. The fourteen chapters of
Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative are organized into four
cohesive sections. These chapters investigate the impact of gender
stereotypes on medical narratives from a variety of points of view,
considering narratives from diverse languages, time periods,
genres, and media. Each section addresses some of the most pressing
and provocative issues in theories of gender and the medical
humanities: I. Gendering the Medical Gaze and Pathology; II.
Monitoring Race through Reproduction; III. Rescripting Trauma and
Healing; and IV. Medical Masculinities.Along with these sections,
Gender Scripts Medicine and Narrative features a preface by Rita
Charon, MD, PhD, Director and Founder, The Program in Narrative
Medicine, Columbia University, a foreword by Marcelline Block, and
an introduction by Angela Laflen. This collection takes a truly
interdisciplinary look at the topic of gender and medicine, and the
impressive group of contributors to the anthology represent a wide
range of academic fields of inquiry, including medical humanities,
bioethics, English, modern languages, women's studies, film theory,
postcolonial theory, art history, the history of science and
medicine, new media studies, theories of trauma, among others. This
approach of crossing boundaries of genre and discipline makes the
volume accessible to scholars who are concerned with narrative,
gender, and/or medical ethics.Click here for a recent review of
this title.
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