Black Women in Sequence Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime

Black Women in Sequencetakes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character "the Butterfly" - the first Black female superheroine in a comic book - to contemporary comic books, graphic novels, film, mang...

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Main Author: Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle University of Washington Press 24.11.2015
Edition:2
Subjects:
African American women in literature
Africans in literature
Comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels
History
History and criticism
Language & Literature
Sociology
Women in literature
ISBN:9780295994956, 0295994959
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter Table of Contents PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION 1: RE-INKING THE NATION 2: BLACK CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE? 3: AFRICAN GODDESSES, MIXED-RACE WONDERS, AND BAADASSSSS WOMEN 4: ANIME DREAMS FOR AFRICAN GIRLS 5: WHERE I’M COMING FROM CONCLUSION NOTES INDEX
  • Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 RE-INKING THE NATION: Jackie Ormes's Black Cultural Front Comics -- 2 BLACK CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE?: Catwoman, Blackness, and Postracialism -- 3 AFRICAN GODDESSES, MIXED-RACE WONDERS, AND BAADASSSSS WOMEN: Black Women as "Signs" of Africa in US Comics -- 4 ANIME DREAMS FOR AFRICAN GIRLS: Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water -- 5 WHERE I'M COMING FROM: Black Female Artists and Postmodern Comix -- CONCLUSION: Comic Book Divas and the Making of Sequential Subjects -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z