Drawing New Color Lines : Transnational Asian American Graphic Narratives.

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Visual Realities of Race -- Section I: Comics, Caricatures, and Race in North America -- 1. A Moment Outside of Time: The Visual Life of Homosexuality and Race in Tamaki and Tamaki's Skim -- 2. Asian/American Postethnic Subjectivity in Derek Kirk Kim's Good as Lily, Same Difference and Other Stories, and Tune -- 3. The Model Minority between Medical School and Nintendo: Gene Luen Yang and Thien Pham's Level Up -- 4. In Plain Sight: Reading the Racial Surfaces of Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings -- Section II: North American Representations of Race across the Pacific -- 5. When the Monkey King Travels across the Pacific and Back: Reading Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese in China -- 6. "Maybe It's Time for a Little History Lesson Here": Autographics and Ann Marie Fleming's The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam -- Plates -- 7. Emotions as Landscapes: Specters of Asian American Racialization in Shaun Tan's Graphic Narratives -- 8. From Fan Activism to Graphic Narrative: Culture and Race in Gene Luen Yang's Avatar: The Last Airbender-The Promise -- 9. (Re)Collecting Vietnam: Vietnamization, Soldier Remorse, and Marvel Comics -- 10. The Awesome and Mundane Adventures of Flor de Manila y San Francisco -- Section III: Manga Goes West and Returns -- 11. The "Japaneseness" of OEL Manga: On Japanese American Comics Artists and Manga Style -- 12. Manga-fying Yang's American Born Chinese -- 13. Skim as Girl: Reading a Japanese North American Graphic Novel through Manga Lenses -- 14. Queering Manga: Eating Queerly in 12 Days -- 15. Conveying New Material Realities: Transnational Popular Culture in Asian American Comics -- Index.

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