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Graphic Novels Across the Curriculum
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1. Persepolis
ON WRITING PERSEPOLIS, by Marjane Satrapi, as told to Pantheon staff, has comments by Satrapi about her inspiration and writing process, as well as external links to additional information.
posted 3/4/2010 1:54 PM
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2. American Born Chinese and Superhero Comics
If you are interested in framing American Born Chinese with the some of the superhero comic tropes and conventions, you might want to look at the Dual Identity chapter in the Danny Fingeroth book, Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society. It's on the cart we've set aside in the library. What's more, the essay that Fingeroth comments on, What Makes Superman So Darned American?, by Gary Engle, is available directly online: http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~satingle/gary_engle.htm In another book on reserve in the library, Comics and Ideology, there is a chapter entitled The Tyranny of the Melting Pot Metaphor: Wonder Woman as the Americanized Immigrant. Maybe interesting, although I don't know how much time we really need or want to spend on Wonder Woman?
posted 1/14/2010 11:48 AM
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3. American Born Chinese
A review in the November 2006 issue of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books states that "The graphic novel format is particularly well suited to managing the flow of three simultaneous storylines, and the action sequences of the Monkey King's tale and over-the-top satire on the portrayal of immigrants in American pop culture settle right into their spacious frames on the generously white bordered pages." Does anyone have any thoughts or responses to this or anything else from the first meeting's discussion?
posted 1/12/2010 1:45 PM
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