Introduction: Bridging Comics Studies and Childhood Studies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Putting Childhood Back into World Comics: A Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction: Bridging Comics Studies and Childhood Studies 1
6. Chapter One. Little Orphan Annie as Streetwalker 13
7. Chapter Two. Competent Children and Social Cohesion: Representations of Childhood in Home Front Propaganda Comics during World War II in Finland 30
8. Chapter Three. In the Minority: Constructions of American Dream Childhood in 1950s–Early 1960s Little Audrey Comics 48
9. Chapter Four. Comics and Emmett Till 70
10. Chapter Five. Out of the Mouths of Babes: Mafalda’s Interrogation of the Argentine Angel in the House 92
11. Chapter Six. Sex, Comix, and Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Zap Comix’s Attack on the American Mainstream 108
12. Chapter Seven. RAW and Little Lit: Resisting and Redefining Children’s Comics 128
13. Chapter Eight. Lolicon: Adolescent Fetishization in Osamu Tezuka’s Ayako 148
14. Chapter Nine. Wise beyond Her Years: How Persepolis Introjects the Adult into the Child 163
15. Chapter Ten. Vehlmann, or the End of Innocence: Lessons in Cruelty in Seuls and Jolies ténèbres 181
16. Chapter Eleven. Zeno, Childhood, and The Three Paradoxes 199
17. Chapter Twelve. Dancing with Demons: Consciousness and Identity in the Comics of Lynda Barry 218
18. Chapter Thirteen. The Grotesque Child: Animal-Human Hybridity in Sweet Tooth 234
19. List of Contributors 251
20. Index 253