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CoverSeriesTitleCopyrightContentsNotes on the ContributorsForewordIntroducing Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the CrossroadsIntersections: Comics and transnationalism—transnationalism and comicsFrom an international to a transnational perspectivePremises, promises, pitfallsPart I Politics and Poetics1 Not Just a Theme: Transnationalism and Form in Visual Narratives of US Slavery2 Transnational Identity as Shape-Shifting: Metaphor and Cultural Resonance in Gene Luen Yang’sIntroductionCultural identity, metaphor, and embodimentCultural allusions and resonancesConclusion3 Cosmopolitan Suspicion: Comics Journalism and Graphic SilenceStill life with children“Freedom is slavery”: Guy Delisle“War is peace”: Joe Sacco“Ignorance is strength”: Jean-Philippe Stassen and Ari FolmanNotes4 Staging Cosmopolitanism: The Transnational Encounter in Joe Sacco’sJoe Sacco as a civic modelThe encounter I): Universal empathyThe encounter II): The violence of empathyThe encounter III): Cosmopolitan documentation5 “Trying to Recapture the Front”: A Transnational Perspective on Hawaii in R. Kikuo Johnson’sImage and imagination in the construction of the exoticSociety, ecology, and the search for roots6 Folding Nations, Cutting Borders: Transnationalism in the Comics of Warren Craghead IIIGoing transnationalCrossing the AtlanticFolding the Arab SpringConclusionWorks citedPart II Transnational and Transcultural Superheroes7 Batman Goes Transnational: The Global Appropriation and Distribution of an American HeroIntroduction: On the scope of Batman as a transnational iconThe Nightrunner primerTranscultural influenceTransnational relationsConclusion: The not-so-American icons8 Spider-Man India: Comic Books and the Translating/ Transcreating of American Cultural NarrativesThe narratives of transnational and transcultural exchangeSpider-Man and American/global identityInterrogating the transcreation of Spider-Man IndiaThe problematic transcreation of heroic originsConclusion9 Of Transcreations and Transpacific Adaptations: Investigating Manga Versions of Spider-ManRyoichi Ikegami: Spider-Man the MangaYamanaka Akira: Spider-Man JKaare Andrews: Spider-Man MangaverseConclusion10 Warren Ellis: Performing the Transnational Author in the American Comics Mainstream11 “Truth, Justice, and the Islamic Way”: Conceiving the Cosmopolitan Muslim Superhero in The 99The making of a Muslim media franchiseFighting for truth, justice, international harmony, and cooperationThe team-up as a transnational experiencePart III Translations, Transformations, Migrations12 Lost in Translation: Narratives of Transcultural Displacement in the Wordless Graphic NovelComics and the wordless graphic novelTransnational silenceAlienated and anonymous: The CityStranger in a strange land: Gods’ ManExplicitly transnational: The ArrivalA monstrous comic book: The GolemConclusion13 Hard-Boiled Silhouettes: Transnational Remediation and the Art of Omission in Frank Miller’s Sin CityRemediating film noirRemediating sound effects and wordless woodcutsRemediating silent filmConclusion14 The “Big Picture” as a Multitude of Fragments: Jason Lutes’s Depiction of Weimar Republic BerlinOut of many individuals: The multitude of storiesOut of many comics: The multitude of stylesE pluribus pluria15 “Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together”: The Cultural Crossovers of Bryan Lee O’MalleyWorks cited16 A Disappointing Crossing: The North American Reception of Asterix and TintinFrom BD to comicsReadersThe dialectics of market and culture17 Afterword: Framing, Unframing, Reframing: Retconning the Transnational Work of ComicsToward a media-theoretical backstory: The frameOf sequences, series, and states: Unframing and reframingConclusion, or: To be continued . . .Index
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