{"product_id":"how-comics-travel-katherine-kelp-stebbins-9780814258231","title":"How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2023 Eisner Award for Best Scholarly\/Academic Work \u003cbr\u003e Honorable Mention, 2023 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eHow Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies\u003c\/i\u003e, Katherine Kelp-Stebbins challenges the clich馘 understanding of comics as a \"universal\" language, circulating without regard for cultures or borders. Instead, she develops a new methodology of \u003ci\u003ereading for difference\u003c\/i\u003e. Kelp-Stebbins's anticolonial, feminist, and antiracist analytical framework engages with comics as sites of struggle over representation in a diverse world. Through comparative case studies of \u003ci\u003eMetro\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTintin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePersepolis\u003c\/i\u003e, and more, she explores the ways in which graphic narratives locate and dislocate readers in every phase of a transnational comic's life cycle according to distinct visual, linguistic, and print cultures. \u003ci\u003eHow Comics Travel \u003c\/i\u003edisengages from the constrictive pressures of nationalism and imperialism, both in comics studies and world literature studies more broadly, to offer a new vision of how comics depict and enact the world as a transcultural space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katherine Kelp-Stebbins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814258239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814258231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 5.91w x 0.63d","brand":"Katherine Kelp-Stebbins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057126863103,"sku":"9780814258231","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_437a39e8-62d2-47a0-a074-4d3d1e7f46c3.jpg?v=1685045207","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-comics-travel-katherine-kelp-stebbins-9780814258231","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}