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Comic Books and American Cultural History 99778811444411116633119966__PPrreelliimmss__FFiinnaall__ttxxtt__pprriinntt..iinndddd ii 11//2255//22000011 1111::2255::2233 AAMM 99778811444411116633119966__PPrreelliimmss__FFiinnaall__ttxxtt__pprriinntt..iinndddd iiii 11//2255//22000011 1111::2255::2244 AAMM Comic Books and American Cultural History An Anthology MATTHEW PUSTZ 99778811444411116633119966__PPrreelliimmss__FFiinnaall__ttxxtt__pprriinntt..iinndddd iiiiii 11//2255//22000011 1111::2255::2244 AAMM Continuum International Publishing Group 80 Maiden Lane, Suite 704, New York, NY 10038 The Tower Building, 11 York Road, London SE1 7NX www.continuumbooks.com © Matthew Pustz and Contributors, 2012 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the permission of the publishers. EISBN: 978-1-4411-9757-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India Printed and bound in the United States of America 99778811444411116633119966__PPrreelliimmss__FFiinnaall__ttxxtt__pprriinntt..iinndddd iivv 11//2255//22000011 1111::2255::2244 AAMM To my teachers, for making me a better student . To my students, for making me a better teacher 99778811444411116633119966__PPrreelliimmss__FFiinnaall__ttxxtt__pprriinntt..iinndddd vv 11//2255//22000011 1111::2255::2244 AAMM 99778811444411116633119966__PPrreelliimmss__FFiinnaall__ttxxtt__pprriinntt..iinndddd vvii 11//2255//22000011 1111::2255::2244 AAMM CONTENTS List of Figures x Notes on Contributors xii Introduction C omic Books as History Teachers 1 Matthew Pustz PART ONE Doing Cultural History through Comic Books 9 1 How Wonder Woman Helped My Students “Join the Conversation”: Comic Books as Teaching Tools in a History Methodology Course 1 1 Jessamyn Neuhaus 2 Comics as Primary Sources: The Case of Journey into Mohawk Country 2 6 Bridget M. Marshall 3 Transcending the Frontier Myth: Dime Novel Narration and (Jesse) Custer’s Last Stand in P reacher 40 William Grady 4 “Duel. I’ll Give You a DUEL”: Intimacy and History in Megan Kelso’s A lexander Hamilton Trilogy 5 9 Alison Mandaville 99778811444411116633119966__PPrreelliimmss__FFiinnaall__ttxxtt__pprriinntt..iinndddd vviiii 11//2255//22000011 1111::2255::2244 AAMM viii CONTENTS PART TWO Comic Books as Cultural Artifacts 77 5 A merican Golem: Reading America through Super-New Dealers and the “Melting Pot” 79 Martin Lund 6 “ Dreams May End, But Love Never Does”: Marriage and Materialism in American Romance Comics, 1947–1954 94 Jeanne Emerson Gardner 7 P arody and Propaganda: Fighting American and the Battle against Crime and Communism in the 1950s 110 John Donovan 8 G rasping for Identity: The Hands of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu 120 Peter Lee 9 “ Paralysis and Stagnation and Drift”: America’s Malaise as Demonstrated in Comic Books of the 1970s 136 Matthew Pustz 10 T he Shopping Malls of Empire: Cultural Fragmentation, the New Media, and Consumerism in Howard Chaykin’s A merican Flagg! 152 Matthew J. Costello PART THREE Comic Books and Historical Identity 169 11 T ransformers and Monkey Kings: Gene Yang’s American Born Chinese and the Quest for Identity 1 71 Todd S. Munson 99778811444411116633119966__PPrreelliimmss__FFiinnaall__ttxxtt__pprriinntt..iinndddd vviiiiii 11//2255//22000011 1111::2255::2244 AAMM CONTENTS ix 12 A gent of Change: The Evolution and Enculturation of Nick Fury 184 Philip G. Payne and Paul J. Spaeth 13 T he U.S. HIV/AIDS Crisis and the Negotiation of Queer Identity in Superhero Comics, or, Is Northstar Still a Fairy? 202 Ben Bolling PART FOUR Comic Books and Contemporary History 221 14 The Militarism of American Superheroes after 9/11 223 A. David Lewis 15 September 11, 2001: Witnessing History, Demythifying the Story in American Widow 2 37 Yves Davo 16 “The Great Machine Doesn’t Wear a Cape!”: American Cultural Anxiety and the Post-9/11 Superhero 250 Jeff Geers Index 2 63 99778811444411116633119966__PPrreelliimmss__FFiinnaall__ttxxtt__pprriinntt..iinndddd iixx 11//2255//22000011 1111::2255::2244 AAMM
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