Immigrants and Comics

Nhora Lucía Serrano is the Associate Director for Digital Learning & Research at Hamilton College, New York. Originally from Colombia, and previously a Visiting Scholar of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, Dr. Serrano is a trained Medieval and Early Modern Visual Studies scholar, who was the recipient of a 2018 Mellon Press Diversity Fellowship at the MIT Press, a 2017 NEH Summer Institute fellowship at the Newberry Library, and a 2014 Smithsonian National Postal Museum fellowship. Dr. Serrano is a founding member and currently the Treasurer of the Comics Studies Society, and from 2014–2018, she served on the MLA Executive Forum on Comics and Graphic Narratives. Presently, Dr. Serrano is an MLA Delegate Assembly Member and she serves on the MLA Executive Discussion Group on Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography.

Foreword: Comics as Movement; Comics as Planetary Healing Introduction: In the Shadow of Liberty: Immigration and the Graphic Space Part 1: Shaping Comic Traditions, Portraying Immigrants 1. Of Birds and Men: Metonymic and Symbolic Representations of Immigration in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival 2. "How Quickly We Forget": Immigration and Family Narrative in James Sturm's The Golem's Mighty Swing and Unstable Molecules 3. Postcards from the Past: The 1893 Chicago World Fair and Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth 4. From Immigrants to Filibusters: The Curious Case of R. F. Outcault's The Yellow Kid 5. Naming the Place and Telling the Story in Demain, demain: Nanterre, bidonville de la Folie, 1962—1966 by Laurent Maffre 6. More than a Cockroach: Dreaming and Surviving in Will Eisner's A Life Force 7. Stranded by Empire: The Forced Migrants of Shirato Sanpei's Kieyuku sho-jo Part II: Border Crossings, Immigrant Identity 8. Once Upon a Time on the Border: Immigration and Mexican Comic Book Westerns 9. Picturing the (Silent) History of Immigration in France and in French Bandes Dessinées 10. Brodeck’s Report (Manu Larcenet): A Study in Intermediality 11. Migra Mouse: Immigration, Satire, and Hybridity as Latino/a Decolonial Acts 12. Tracing Trauma: Questioning Understanding of Clandestine Migration in Amazigh: itinéraire d’hommes libres 13. Immigration, Photography, and the Color Line in Lila Quintero Weaver’s Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White 14. African Diaspora and Black Bodies: X-Men’s Storm