Description: Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and memory in multiethnic graphic novels. Such interplay enables a new understanding of the past.
Brief description: MARTHA J. CUTTER is a professor of English and Africana studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity and Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930.
Review Quotes: Without a doubt, Redrawing the Historical Past is a major contribution to the emerging body of work that engages the theoretical, artistic, and political possibilities of graphic form.--Laini Kavaloski "The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States"