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Teaching the Graphic Novel

Graphic novels are now appearing in a great variety of courses: composition, literature, drama, popular culture, travel, art, translation. The thirty-four essays in this volume explore issues that the new art form has posed for teachers at the university level. Among the subjects addressed are

terminology (graphic narrative vs. sequential art, comics vs. comix)

the three outstanding comics-producing cultures today: the American, the Japanese (manga), and the Franco-Belgian (the bande dessinee)

the differences between the techniques of graphic narrative and prose narrative, and between the reading patterns for each

the connections between the graphic novel and film

the lives of the new genre's practitioners (e.g., Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar)

women's contributions to the field (e.g., Lynda Barry)

how the graphic novel has been used to probe difficult moments in history (the Holocaust, 9/11), deal with social and racial injustice, and voice political satire

postmodernism in the graphic novel (e.g., in the work of Chris Ware)

how the American superhero developed in the Depression and World War II

comix and the 1960s counterculture

the challenges of teaching graphic novels that contain violence and sexual content

The volume concludes with a selected bibliography of the graphic novel and sequential art.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 352
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781603290616
  • Genres
  • teaching
  • Release date
  • 2009