Comics & Graphic Narrative

Catalog description

Comics-with connections to political pamphlets, cartooning, and zineshave a long history of lampooning critique. Alongside issues of form and aesthetics, this course investigates 20th and 21st century American graphic narratives as a form positioned to ask questions about the politics and poetics of representing race, gender, and sexuality in their intersections. How does the simultaneity of word and image invite new reading practices, ways of knowing, and ecphrastic possibilities? What are the ethics and politics of visual representation amid the violent realities of white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, imperialism and (neo)colonialism? What possibilities for activism (or artivism) exist within comics, popular culture, and literary studies?