Description: A revelation of the powerful circuit between Black history and modern comics by African American creators
Brief description: Daniel Stein is professor of North American literary and cultural studies and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Siegen, Germany. He is author of Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz and Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre. Stein has also coedited numerous essay collections and journal issues focused on US literature, graphic narratives, nineteenth-century serial literature, and popular culture.
Review Quotes: What makes Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots important is the depth and breadth of Stein's engagement with contemporary texts that have appeared, since their release, in classrooms all over the world. Stein's book provides critical insight into these works and serves as a foundation for further research and for pedagogical approaches to these texts and others in the classroom and beyond.--Matthew Teutsch "Medium"