Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960 write by Nathan Vernon Madison. This book was released on 2013-01-17. Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this thorough history, the author demonstrates, via the popular literature (primarily pulp magazines and comic books) of the 1920s to about 1960, that the stories therein drew their definitions of heroism and villainy from an overarching, nativist fear of outsiders that had existed before World War I but intensified afterwards. These depictions were transferred to America's "new" enemies, both following U.S. entry into the Second World War and during the early stages of the Cold War. Anti-foreign narratives showed a growing emphasis on ideological, as opposed to racial or ethnic, differences--and early signs of the coming "multiculturalism"--indicating that pure racism was not the sole reason for nativist rhetoric in popular literature. The process of change in America's nativist sentiments, so virulent after the First World War, are revealed by the popular, inexpensive escapism of the time, pulp magazines and comic books.
The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature write by John Ernest. This book was released on 2024-06-30. The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive study of how American racial history and culture have shaped, and have been shaped by, American literature.
Korean War Comic Books
Korean War Comic Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Korean War Comic Books write by Leonard Rifas. This book was released on 2021-04-16. Korean War Comic Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean War, as it was being fought and afterward. Comparing these comics with events that inspired them offers a deeper understanding of the comics industry, America's "forgotten war," and the anti-comics movement, championed by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, who criticized their brutalization of the imagination. Comics--both newsstand offerings and government propaganda--used fictions to justify the unpopular war as necessary and moral. This book examines the dramatization of events and issues, including the war's origins, germ warfare, brainwashing, Cold War espionage, the nuclear threat, African Americans in the military, mistreatment of POWs, and atrocities.
Empire's Nursery
Empire's Nursery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire's Nursery write by Brian Rouleau. This book was released on 2021-09-07. Empire's Nursery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How children and children’s literature helped build America’s empire America’s empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential to its creation. Through children’s literature, authors instilled the idea of America’s power and the importance of its global prominence. As kids eagerly read dime novels, series fiction, pulp magazines, and comic books that dramatized the virtues of empire, they helped entrench a growing belief in America’s indispensability to the international order. Empires more generally require stories to justify their existence. Children’s literature seeded among young people a conviction that their country’s command of a continent (and later the world) was essential to global stability. This genre allowed ardent imperialists to obscure their aggressive agendas with a veneer of harmlessness or fun. The supposedly nonthreatening nature of the child and children’s literature thereby helped to disguise dominion’s unsavory nature. The modern era has been called both the “American Century” and the “Century of the Child.” Brian Rouleau illustrates how those conceptualizations came together by depicting children in their influential role as the junior partners of US imperial enterprise.
A Concise Dictionary of Comics
A Concise Dictionary of Comics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Concise Dictionary of Comics write by Nancy Pedri. This book was released on 2022-03-08. A Concise Dictionary of Comics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, A Concise Dictionary of Comics guides students, researchers, readers, and educators of all ages and at all levels of comics expertise. It provides them with a dictionary that doubles as a compendium of comics scholarship. A Concise Dictionary of Comics provides clear and informative definitions for each term. It includes twenty-five witty illustrations and pairs most defined terms with references to books, articles, book chapters, and other relevant critical sources. All references are dated and listed in an extensive, up-to-date bibliography of comics scholarship. Each term is also categorized according to type in an index of thematic groupings. This organization serves as a pedagogical aid for teachers and students learning about a specific facet of comics studies and as a research tool for scholars who are unfamiliar with a particular term but know what category it falls into. These features make A Concise Dictionary of Comics especially useful for critics, students, teachers, and researchers, and a vital reference to anyone else who wants to learn more about comics.
