Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault’s Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo, and Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie to Hergé’s Tintin (Belgium), José Escobar’s Zipi and Zape (Spain), and Wilhelm Busch’s Max and Moritz (Germany), iconic child characters have given both kids and adults not only hours of entertainment but also an important vehicle for exploring children’s lives and the sometimes challenging realities that surround them.Bringing together comic studies and childhood studies, this pioneering collection of essays provides the first wide-ranging account of how children and childhood, as well as the larger cultural forces behind their representations, have been depicted in comics from the 1930s to the present. The authors address issues such as how comics reflect a spectrum of cultural values concerning children, sometimes even resisting dominant cultural constructions of childhood; how sensitive social issues, such as racial discrimination or the construction and enforcement of gender roles, can be explored in comics through the use of child characters; and the ways in which comics use children as metaphors for other issues or concerns. Specific topics discussed in the book include diversity and inclusiveness in Little Audrey comics of the 1950s and 1960s, the fetishization of adolescent girls in Japanese manga, the use of children to build national unity in Finnish wartime comics, and how the animal/child hybrids in Sweet Tooth act as a metaphor for commodification.
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Uniting the perspectives of comics studies and childhood studies, this pioneering collection is the first book devoted to representations of childhood in iconic US and international comics from the 1930s to the present.
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Putting Childhood Back into World Comics: A Foreword, by Frederick Luis AldamaAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Bridging Comics Studies and Childhood Studies, by Mark Heimermann and Brittany TullisChapter 1. Little Orphan Annie as Streetwalker, by Pamela Robertson WojcikChapter 2. Competent Children and Social Cohesion: Representations of Childhood in Home Front Propaganda Comics during World War II in Finland, by Ralf KauranenChapter 3. In the Minority: Constructions of American Dream Childhood in 1950s–Early 1960s Little Audrey Comics, by Christopher J. Hayton and Janardana D. HaytonChapter 4. Comics and Emmett Till, by Qiana WhittedChapter 5. Out of the Mouths of Babes: Mafalda's Interrogation of the Argentine Angel in the House, by Brittany TullisChapter 6. Sex, Comix, and Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Zap Comix's Attack on the American Mainstream, by Ian BlechschmidtChapter 7. RAW and Little Lit: Resisting and Redefining Children's Comics, by Lara SaguisagChapter 8. Lolicon: Adolescent Fetishization in Osamu Tezuka's Ayako, by James G. NobisChapter 9. Wise beyond Her Years: How Persepolis Introjects the Adult into the Child, by Clifford MarksChapter 10. Vehlmann, or the End of Innocence: Lessons in Cruelty in Seuls and Jolies ténèbres, by Annick PellegrinChapter 11. Zeno, Childhood, and The Three Paradoxes, by C. W. MarshallChapter 12. Dancing with Demons: Consciousness and Identity in the Comics of Lynda Barry, by Tamryn BennettChapter 13. The Grotesque Child: Animal-Human Hybridity in Sweet Tooth, by Mark HeimermannList of ContributorsIndex
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Picturing Childhood is a much needed and long-awaited interdisciplinary project that looks at representations of children throughout the history of comics.
This collection is the first extended work to mesh childhood studies with comics studies, and, as such, it represents an important contribution to the discourse of both disciplines, as well as to children’s literature, popular culture, and related fields. What makes this volume especially notable is the broad scope of the comics under consideration. This breath of format, setting, and purpose helps ensure that both casual readers and expert comics scholars will come away with new insights.
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"This collection is the first extended work to mesh childhood studies with comics studies, and, as such, it represents an important contribution to the discourse of both disciplines, as well as to children's literature, popular culture, and related fields. What makes this volume especially notable is the broad scope of the comics under consideration. This breath of format, setting, and purpose helps ensure that both casual readers and expert comics scholars will come away with new insights." -- Carol L. Tilley, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781477311622
Publisert
2017-03-01
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Texas Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
38 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
280

Foreword by

Om bidragsyterne

Mark Heimermann holds a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Brittany Tullis is an assistant professor of Spanish and women and gender studies at St. Ambrose University.