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The worldwide movement of comics, manga, and different such visible mediums among North the US and Asia produces transnational meanings not rooted in a separation among "Asian" and "American." Drawing New colour strains explores the tradition, creation, and background of latest image narratives that depict Asian americans and Asians. It examines how eastern manga and Asian pop culture have prompted Asian American comics; how those comics and Asian American image narratives depict the "look" of race; and the way those quite a few representations are interpreted in countries now not in their construction. via targeting what picture narratives suggest for audiences in North the United States and people in Asia, the gathering discusses how Western theories in regards to the ways that picture narratives may well effectively overturn derogatory caricatures are themselves in line with contested assumptions; and illustrates that the so-called odorless photographs featured in jap manga may perhaps however elicit interpretations approximately race in transnational contexts. With contributions from specialists dependent in North the US and Asia, Drawing New colour traces may be of curiosity to students in a number of disciplines, together with Asian American experiences, cultural and literary reports, comics and visible studies.

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