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From two incredible rising talents comes the fantasy graphic novel Molly Knox Ostertag calls \"instantly compelling.\" Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt-Sajji Empire, and as a member of the subjugated Ornu people, Knighthood is her only path to full citizenship. Ravaged by famine and mounting tensions, Bayt-Sajji finds itself on the brink of war once again, so Aiza can finally enlist in the competitive Squire training program. It's not how she imagined it, though. Aiza must navigate new friendships, rivalries, and rigorous training under the unyielding General Hende, all while hiding her Ornu background. As the pressure mounts, Aiza realizes that the \"greater good\" that Bayt-Sajji's military promises might not include her, and that the recruits might be in greater danger than she ever imagined. In this breathtaking and timely story, Aiza will have to choose, once and for all: loyalty to her heart and heritage, or loyalty to the Empire.
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Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics by Lara Saguisag (review)
For Saguisag, it is within the panels of Progressive Era comic strips that \"children's citizenship was defined and debated and in which notions of race, ethnicity, gender, and class were used to sort and re-sort children into categories of 'future citizen' and 'noncitizen'\" (5). Saguisag draws upon Robin Bernstein's argument that this caricature positions black children as nonchildren. Because the pickaninny does not experience pain, it implies black children lack vulnerability and natural innocence and therefore can be excluded from categories of child and human. While questions of citizenship permeate the book, each chapter also accounts for ambiguity, liminality, and tension, in relation to both the messages of comic strips and Progressive Era values.
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Making Reading Popular: Cold War Literacy and Classics Illustrated
[...]CI appeared to offer a subtle challenge to America's cultural guardians as it invited young readers to choose for themselves what \"complete adaptation of a great story by the world's immortal authors\" they would read and how.6 Paradoxically, CI attempted to make young citizen-readers their own arbiters of taste via its prescribed diet of \"best books.\" [...]CI exemplified the complex and contradictory politics of reading during the early days of the Cold War. Critics, of course, are quick to identify what has been \"lost\" from the original through the adapter's sin. [...]Linda Hutcheon rightly identifies the moralistic rhetoric and position of adaptation's critics and the \"heresy\" that adaptations embrace as they transpose one sign system to another. To be a good reader-citizen, one needed to adapt; yet, how and why were contingent upon what those in positions of power deemed was worthy. [...]adaptations like CI could claim to perform a democracy that is simultaneously conservative (emulating the status quo), liberal (reforming the status quo to be more inclusive), and subversive (challenging the authorities defining the status quo).37 Admittedly, some of CI's \"subversion\" was inadvertent or pragmatic. CI took this one step further by reprinting various issues with different covers and artwork. Because multiple versions of each text could exist, readers scoured various newsstands, drug stores, and market sellers searching for the issue that they \"needed\" for their collection.
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Turncape.(reactions to Superman comics)
Comments posted to fan website ComicsAlliance about Superman's decision to renounce his US citizenship in issue number 900 of Action Comics are listed. The comments ranged from condemnation of the comic to dismissal of the work as merely of fiction.
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