Nationalism&comics
instructions of the paper: Comics have long been associated with advancing nationalist agendas, be it in the form of wartime propaganda or nationalistic superheroes. Different genres and nations, however, construct national identity in radically different ways. Compare and contrast how national identity is constructed in either two comics from the same nation or two comics from different nations. What elements of national identity are emphasized and how?
note:(please do a good quotation with quotation marks and use it correctly better from the book, (don’t use sources from wiki pedia and newspaper articles.)(please use scholarly journal articles, academic books published by university presses, and other reputable critical sources) )
something that the prof requires: Remember that you’re writing about texts, not the idea of comics in general. It’s a very good idea to choose what specific comic books or graphic novel(s) you are going to write about .
If you want to write about Batman, you shouldn’t be writing about Batman in general but about a specific and identifiable text (or set of texts) that feature this character. If your argument is about “Batman” and not “the representation of _____ in [specifically identified issues of Batman],” then you need to rethink! If you don’t choose specific texts to write about, you literally have nowhere to get evidence from to support your claims.
, you’ll be expected to advance your argument using a combination of primary sources (i.e., the comics themselves) and secondary sources (i.e., scholarship about comics and/or other relevant scholarly discourses). In both cases, however, you won’t merely be repeating what the comics/other scholars have said, but rather will be offering your own insights on these texts. Don’t rely too heavily on quotations. You have your own ideas—have confidence in them!
