Immigrants and Comics Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis
“Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis” by Nhora Lucía Serrano is a 248-page anthology published by Routledge in 2021. This interdisciplinary collection explores the significant role of comics in representing and shaping the immigrant experience within the context of popular global culture throughout the twentieth century. The contributors analyze how immigration is depicted in various forms of comics, cartoons, and graphic novels, highlighting the immigrant as a crucial figure in the evolution of the comics medium.
Readers will find a critical examination of the socio-political environments that immigrants navigate, as well as the ways in which these experiences are articulated through visual storytelling. The book engages with themes of remembrance and commemoration, drawing on the concept of lieux de mémoire as articulated by Pierre Nora. This anthology will appeal to students and scholars across multiple disciplines, including Literary Criticism, Ethnic Studies, and Media Studies, providing insights into the intersection of immigration and popular culture.
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“Immigrants and Comics is an interdisciplinary, themed anthology that focuses on how comics have played a crucial role in representing, constructing, and reifying the immigrant subject and the immigrant experience in popular global culture of the twentieth century. Nhora Lucâia Serrano and a diverse group of contributors examine immigrant experience as they navigate new socio-political milieux in cartoons, comics, and graphic novels across cultures and time periods. They interrogate how immigration is portrayed in comics and how the ‘immigrant’ was an indispensable and vital trope to the development of the comics medium in the twentieth century. At the heart of the book’s interdisciplinary nexus is a critical framework steeped in the ideas of remembrance and commemoration, what Pierre Nora calls lieux de mâemoire. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Ethnic Studies, Francophone Studies, American Studies, Hispanic Studies, art history, and museum studies”–
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