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Remediating Blackness And The Formation Of A Black Graphic Historical Novel Tradition, Adam Kendall Coombs
Remediating Blackness And The Formation Of A Black Graphic Historical Novel Tradition, Adam Kendall Coombs
Masters Theses
This study attempts to establish the cross-currents of African American literary traditions and an emerging African American graphic novel aesthetic. A close analysis of the visuality foreground in the visual/textual space of the graphic novel will provide insight into how the form of the graphic novel reconciles and revises more traditional textual literary elements. Such motifs and tropes as the visuality of slave portraiture, Gates’ trope of the talking book, and the paradox of invisibility/visibility within African American creative registers will be used to highlight the creative tradition inaugurated by the African American graphic novel. Each of these elements generally …