Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives. Ed. EleanorTy. Ohio State UP, 208 pp. $99.95 hardcover.
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Abstract
Eleanor Ty's new edited volume, Beyond the Icon, is a strong and much-needed contribution to the growing but underrepresented field of critical studies of graphic literature.The volume contains nine essays, which, together, provide a comprehensive review of Asian American graphic literature broadly defined.The subjects of these studies include both works by Asian Americans and those that have significant Asian American characters or themes written by Asian and non-Asian author-illustrators alike.The works analyzed range from silver-age superhero comics from America's largest comic book franchises through contemporary historical fiction to niche comics produced by small independent publishers.The characters and themes explored represent a wide range of Asian cultures, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipinx, Pakistani, and Vietnamese and even include the work of an Asian-Canadian graphic novelist, Julian Tamaki, whose work, according to the editor, is intended to be culturally neutral.The far-reaching design of Beyond the Icon gives the reader a good sense of the breadth of the genre, as well as a keen perspective into how the genre has and is transforming in historical space.Ty admits that the classification of "Asian American authors who write literature with 'unmarked' characters remains problematic for readers because we expect our Asian American writers to write about racialized experiences and ethnic stories," (160) but the inclusion of culturally neutral works here represents a strong recognition that the experience and perspectives of racialized Americans are not and should not be limited to their racialized experiences.Whereas the systematic othering of Asian identities in popular American culture is a recurring theme in many of these essays and the graphic novels that they describe, the cultural ambiguity of Tamaki's work and
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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