Drawing the past : comics and the historical imagination in the United States. Volume 1 /

The first installment of a tremendous exploration between comics and history.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Alexander, Dorian L. (Editor), Goodrum, Michael D., 1983- (Editor), Smith, Phil, 1975- (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Subjects:	Comic books, strips, etc. > United States > History and criticism. Comic books, strips, etc. > Social aspects > United States. Heroes > Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	CONNECT

Table of Contents:

HISTORY AND FORM
1. Coming Home to "Legacy": Marvel's Problem with History
2. Diana in No Man's Land: Wonder Woman and the History of the World War
3. Flags of Our Fathers: Imperial Decline, National Identity, and Allohistory in Marvel Comics
4. The Buckaroo of the Badlands: Carl Barks, Don Rosa, and (Re)Envisioning the West
HISTORICAL TRAUMA
5. Victor Charles and Marvin the ARVN: Vietnamese as Enemy and Ally in American War Comic Books
6. Magneto the Survivor: Redemption, Cold War Fears, and the "Americanization of the Holocaust" in Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men (1975-1991)
7. "How Would You Like to Go Back through the Ages-in Search of Yourself?": Time Travel Comics, Internationalism, and the American Century
MYTHIC HISTORIES
8. Federal Bureau of Illustration: Comics Depictions of J. Edgar Hoover
9. When Hawkman Met Tailgunner Joe: How the Justice Society of America Constructs the Fifties as a Usable Past
10. AfterShock's Rough Riders and Reification of Race Reimagined
11. "Out There Hunting Monsters": Manifest Destiny, the Monstrosity of the American West, and the Gothic Character of American History

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