Old Media, New Media: The Graphic Novel as Bildungsroman

Gretchen E. Schwarz · Christina Crenshaw

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Comics and Graphic Narratives Themes in Literature Analysis Literacy, Media, and Education

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I frequent our town's chain book store when paper grading calls my name.Surrounded by books, I find evaluating a stack of freshman composition papers more enjoyable.Recently, I became distracted by a small cluster of absorbed tweens lounging near me.I was struck by the sight of three young ladies reading, each engrossed in a graphic novel held approximately six inches from her face.I wondered, were they also readers of classical coming of age novels like Huckleberry Finn or Treasure Island?Did they also read young adult novels?What other kinds of texts did they read?What did these young ladies find so appealing about graphic novels?All this pondering led me to this supposition: surely, there must be both personal and academic benefits to studying new forms of literary texts such as graphic novels.As this young college teacher discovered, graphic novels are "hot."They show up everywhere from book stores to TV shows.Educators, too, are discovering the possibilities for graphic novels across the curriculum.Library media specialists have long been advocates and now urge libraries to make graphic novels available for future teachers preparing for their careers (Downey 2009).Cary (2004) has declared the value of graphic novels in teaching English Language Learners.Christensen (2006) suggests that graphic novels have a place in social studies.The list goes on.Among the possibilities, educators can explore the graphic novel as a bildungsroman, a coming of age story-an old genre in the literary canon appearing in a new medium.The graphic novel as bildungsroman can be used to teach media literacy/multiple literacies, while examining issues that can aid adolescent development and engage students with diversity.Along with

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