| Kommentar | “In a medium that presents inimitable possibilities for representing trauma through the expressive spatialization of time,” writes the American comics scholar Michael A. Chaney, “graphic novels by Ho Che Anderson, Aaron McGruder, Kyle Baker, […] and others explicitly thematize what [historian] Hayden White locates as the burden of history within the particular registers of an African American context and milieu.” In this course, we will interrogate Chaney’s claim about black history as it emerges in contemporary graphic narratives. As part of this interrogation, we will familiarize ourselves with the tools of comics analysis and with the African American histories (the Middle Passage, slavery, the civil rights movement) that are referenced and constructed in Tom Feelings’s Middle Passage, Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner, Ho Che Anderson’s King: A Comics Biography, John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell’s March (Books I and II), and Aaron McGruder, Reginald Hudlin, and Kyle Baker’s Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel. Please note that this will be a reading-intensive course. |
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| Literatur | You must purchase or copy/scan the following texts: Baker, Kyle. Nat Turner. New York: Abrams, 2008. (ca. 12,50 Euros) Anderson, Ho Che. King: A Comics Biography. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2010. (ca. 27 Euros) John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell, March: Book One. Top Shelf, 2013. (ca. 14 Euros) John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell, March: Book Two. Top Shelf, 2015. (ca. 19 Euros) NB: One copy of each text will be available in the “Semesterapparat” for this course. All other reading materials will be available on the moodle site for this course. |
| Bemerkung | To attend this course, you must register online. You must be present in the first session in order to secure a place in the course. |
- Dozent/in: Daniel Stein