"Comics and the U.S. South offers an extensive and long-overdue assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and web comics. Diverting the lens of comics studies from the skyscrapers of Sup…
A wide-ranging assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Diverting the lens of comics studies from the skyscrapers of Superman's Metropolis or Chris Ware's Chicago to the …
Here, Lee, author of Beat Generation Writers, takes a look at the rich black literary tradition, encompassing the cinema of Spike Lee, Bessie Smith's blues, Romare Bearsden's canvases, the photography of Gordon Parks, and many more.
'A. Robert Lee ... has set a high standard for those who are bound to one tradition. Designs of Blackness is a very cogent examination of 20th century African-American literature.' Ishmael Reed.
