Description: Examines contemporary African American artistic production through the lens of Coates's groundbreaking entry into the comic book industry.
Brief description: Toyin Falola, Ph.D., is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin (USA), and most recently the Kluge Chair of the Countries and Culture of the South at the Library of Congress in Washington DC (USA). A global icon in African American Studies, Falola has received twenty-eight honorary doctorates.
Review Quotes:
"Using Ta-Nehisi Coates and his tenure penning comics as an extended case study, Howard Rambsy II employs meticulous research, impressive detail, and a constant awareness of the issues surrounding representation and diversity to offer literary scholars, comic book readers, writers and journalists, and anyone else interested in heroes and history a transformational scholarly examination of the intricacies
of creative success - or not - in a divided America. Writing Black Panther is an informative, delightful, and engagingly haunting exploration." --Trudier Harris, J. Carlyle Sitterson Distinguished Professor of English, Emerita, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA