Drawing new color lines : transnational Asian American graphic narratives / edited by Monica Chiu.

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Drawing New Color Lines offers unique perspectives on graphic narratives and Asian American studies by highlighting the visual dimensions of Asian American identities and experiences and by exploring the genre's changing aesthetics in its transpacific movements. The collected essays not only address conventional issues in Asian American cultural production in a US framework, from gender and sexuality to the model minority myth, but also conjure up new formalistic and historical interpretations of the narratives through their transpacific movements. Rather than simply engaging theoretical issues such as post-ethnic subjectivity, gender and queer representation, and post-Vietnam military violence, Chiu (Univ. of New Hampshire) extends the collection to include manga artists who can illustrate and historicize the manga style in its evolving and changing transnational contexts and to East Asia-based scholars who can investigate different receptions of these texts in East Asian historical and cultural contexts. In this sense, the collection caters to different readerships, both beginners and fans who seek to understand the genre through its formalistic elements, historical developments, and changing cultural landscapes. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers. --Yuan Shu, Texas Tech University