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Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960
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Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960 Paperback - 2013

by Nathan Vernon Madison


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In this thorough history, the author demonstrates, via the popular literature (primarily pulp magazines and comic books) of the 1920s to about 1960, that the stories therein drew their definitions of heroism and villainy from an overarching, nativist fear of outsiders that had existed before World War I but intensified afterwards. These depictions were transferred to America's "new" enemies, both following U.S. entry into the Second World War and during the early stages of the Cold War.

Anti-foreign narratives showed a growing emphasis on ideological, as opposed to racial or ethnic, differences--and early signs of the coming "multiculturalism"--indicating that pure racism was not the sole reason for nativist rhetoric in popular literature.

The process of change in America's nativist sentiments, so virulent after the First World War, are revealed by the popular, inexpensive escapism of the time, pulp magazines and comic books.

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  • Title Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960
  • Author Nathan Vernon Madison
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 236
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland & Company
  • Date 2013-01-17
  • ISBN 9780786470952 / 078647095X
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Children's literature, American - History, Comic books, strips, etc - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012046911
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.597

About the author

Nathan Vernon Madison is currently a researcher on the "Tredegar Works" Project at the American Civil War Center and has written for the Library of Virginia's Dictionary of Virginia Biographies, the magazine Blood 'n' Thunder, the encyclopedic series Comics Through Time and the online Pulp Magazines Project. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.
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