Race and identity in Krazy Kat: Performance, Aesthetics, Perspectives
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Date
2014-06
Authors
Mowery, Zane
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University of Oregon
Abstract
This work marks an attempt to redirect the focus of academic writing on race in
the early twentieth-century comic strip Krazy Kat away from its author, George
Herriman, and towards the comic itself. I argue that Herriman displays deep concerns
with race and (more generally) identity in his work, but that these concerns do not
necessarily stem from his own race or family history. In the end, Herriman's work takes
a far more complex perspective towards race and identity than current analysis would
imply, and this thesis therefore serves as an attempt to reopen the dialogue around
Herriman and race by establishing a new point of commencement for such
investigations.
Description
79 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of English and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2014.
Keywords
Comics, Herriman, Ignatz, Racial Passing, Smoked Gonda, Racism