The Content of Our Caricature (eBook)

African American Comic Art and Political Belonging

Rebecca Wanzo (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-2219-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Winner, 2021 Katherine Singer Kovacs 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 Culture Studies, given by the Popular Culture AssociationWinner, 2020 Charles Hatfield Book Prize, given by the Comic Studies SocietyTraces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its headRevealing the long aesthetic tradition of African American cartoonists who have made use of racist caricature as a black diasporic art practice, Rebecca Wanzo demonstrates how these artists have resisted histories of visual imperialism and their legacies. Moving beyond binaries of positive and negative representation, many black cartoonists have used caricatures to criticize constructions of ideal citizenship in the United States, as well as the alienation of African Americans from such imaginaries. The Content of Our Caricature urges readers to recognize how the wide circulation of comic and cartoon art contributes to a common language of both national belonging and exclusion in the United States.Historically, white artists have rendered white caricatures as virtuous representations of American identity, while their caricatures of African Americans are excluded from these kinds of idealized discourses. Employing a rich illustration program of color and black-and-white reproductions, Wanzo explores the works of artists such as Sam Milai, Larry Fuller, Richard Grass Green, Brumsic Brandon Jr., Jennifer Crute, Aaron McGruder, Kyle Baker, Ollie Harrington, and George Herriman, all of whom negotiate and navigate this troublesome history of caricature. The Content of Our Caricature arrives at a gateway to understanding how a visual grammar of citizenship, and hence American identity itself, has been constructed.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.4.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Postmillennial Pop
• Reihe/Serie: Postmillennial Pop
• Zusatzinfo: 69 hts / 6 page color insert
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Aaron McGruder • African American Art • African American cartoonists • African American Children • African Americans • African American soldiers • black aesthetics • black body • black liberation • Black Masculinity • Black Panther • Black superheroes • Brumsic Brandon Jr • Captain America • Citizenship • Civil Rights Movement • Comics • editorial cartoons • equal opportunity humor • Hermeneutic • Ho Che Anderson • Icon • infantile citizenship • Jennifer Cruté • Kyle baker • Larry Fuller • Martin Luther King Jr • nat turner • offensive humor • Ollie Harrington • racial melancholia • R Crumb • Richard Grass Green • Slavery • Stereotype • Thomas Nast • Underground Comix • U.S. comics • Violence • Visual Culture • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-2219-1 / 1479822191
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-2219-5 / 9781479822195