Post #8

This Spanish/pop art piece was different. I liked how the author of the pop art explains his reason and what this pop art means to him.  Also in his introduction you can really feel how passionate he is to his work and how much it means to him as a Hispanic fitting into the American society. I also felt in the actual pop art piece included spanish which gave you a feel to the author's heritage. But i also felt it was bias, because of all the spanish and this is his Latino USA history.  Of course if your a die hard american you will feel strongly to the United States but if you also support a different culture you will infuse that into your actions, work, and your reasons for anything would just be different.  I didn't like the pop art part because I dont really get some of the spanish sayings and it's just confusing. But the illustrations did help and they were fun to look at, but this just isnt my type of genre.  I much rather read about the monkey king myth. See this is what i mean by bias, I am Chinese American so I would enjoy more Chinese/Asian cultured readings more and I feel like I would understand them more. I feel like as equal as anyone tries to be its almost impossible but I dont blame the author.

Post # 7

In this article "Graphic Memoirs Come of Age" by William Bradley he talks about how we establish the term "graphic novels." I feel like Bradley had some very interesting points and a bit funny as well.  In the beginning of the article he talks about how comic books later turn into playing cards and how all these authors just want the attention and they will do anything to draw the attention to their work, and if you think about it that is so true. Comic books/ graphic novels start off as a novel then it becomes a television series and then you start to see games based on the story then you start to see dolls and action figures.  I feel like things can't just be a comic book or graphic novel now a days, the industry wants more and they want to make money and by expanding beyond just the story, they will make that money. Bradley also mentions a lot of popular graphic novels, mostly the super hero series, he says how some graphic novels if they were just novels because some aren't illustrated that well and in some cases just a big disappointment.  I feel like either a graphic novel can be done very well or they are just bad.  There arent descriptive words to describe the story line, there are only pictures and illustrations to describe the story line and when you mess that up the whole book just isnt good. Anyways I liked this article although it confused me at time when Bradley mentions all these authors that i never heard of because im not familiar with comic books.

Post #6

In the "Empowerment Through Mythological Imaginings in Woman Warrior" by Sue Ann Johnston, Johnston is really explaining how woman warriors are portrayed in different Chinese-American mythologies.  The used of direct quoting of different authors to compare and contrast is really helpful.  This lets the reader know where the information is from and it also gives the readers an opinion from the different authors, opens up how the reader might feel, agreeing or disagreeing to the idea.  Also this piece discusses a lot about the roles of a female and how females are basically the "woman warriors" because for a few hundred of year woman are looked down on, they are only slaves/prisoners to the males.  Chinese traditions support this idea that woman are only useful to marry off and are treated like slaves, they never have a say on things, the men were more superior and that women couldn't break free of these roles unless you are the few with enough courage and bravery.  The story of the white tigers, which was also mentioned in the reading piece, out of the man million females. Fa Mu Lan was able to break free from the traditional role of a woman and she learned to be cunning and strong, most importantly she became independent.  She broke free from the repetitive acts of tradition, and found herself along the journey.  The "White Tiger" is just one of the few myths that touch on this topic and help you visual the arguments on gentrification of Chinese or Chinese-American females.