Comics and the U.S. South

Index

329 Index Abbas, 297–98, 315, 318 Abernathy, Jeff, 76, 78, 84 Abner Yokum, 6, 27 abolitionism, 115, 116, 117, 134 A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Neufeld), xii, xv Adams, Jeff, 309 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 32, 48 African Americans, xiii, 106, 180; absence of, 21; in comics, xiii, 40, 45, 47, 48, 76; enslavement, xiii, 39, 114–36, 188–90, 192, 194–95, 197–98, 203–4, 208; homosexuality, xv, 170–71, 180; as messianic, 32; treatment of, 22, 74; violence, xii, 117, 120, 145, 147, 149, 175; writers, ix, 30. See also Black Power; blackness Agnew, Spiro, 35, 56 Agrarianism, 20, 31, 38, 48 Akins, Tony, 190 Al Capp Remembered (Elliott Caplin), 4 Albert the Alligator, 30, 35, 40, 43–46, 47, 48, 53 Alcala,Alfredo, 188 Alec Holland. See Swamp Thing Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 205 alienation, 52, 104, 312 All in the Family, 37 Allen, James Lane, 5 Alley Oop, 45 Allison, Dorothy, 163, 164–65 Alonzo Pinchback, 139, 143, 144 alternative comics, vii–viii American Renaissance, 38 American Revolution, 7 American Splendor (Pekar), 296 American studies, x Americanism, 78, 80 Americanization of Dixie, 64 Americanization of Dixie, The (Egerton), 109n3 Anderson, Ho Che, 139, 189 Andrews,William, 210n6 Angels in America (Kushner), 169 Animal Comics, 30, 36, 38, 40, 43, 47 anxiety, 164, 167 Appalachian culture, xiii, xiv, 3, 6–7, 22–24, 44 Applebome, Peter, 99 Arizona, 181 Arkansas, 12 Arkansas Traveler, The, 14 Arroyo, Elizabeth Fortson, 89 Asian Americans, 141 Astroboy, 45 Atlanta, Ga., 18 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 93 Atlantis, vii Aunt Bessie, 11 authenticity, 97, 102, 105, 106, 288, 302, 316– 17; moral, 32; southern, xiii. See also Faux Bubba phenomenon autobiography, 115–16, 122, 162, 163, 164, 165, 182n2, 285, 300 Available Jones, 8 Away Down South (Cobb), 101 Baker, Houston, ix Baker, Kyle, xii, xiii, 113, 119–22, 125–28, 130–36, 139, 189 Index 330 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 53–54 Baldwin, James, 170, 182, 203 Bamboozled, 138 Barefootz (Cruse), 161 Barks, Carl, 31, 45 Barney Google, 24 Bastard Out of Carolina (Allison), 163, 164–65 Batman, vii, 144 Battle Star, 78–79, 80–81, 84, 85–86n11. See also Bucky Bayou, xiv, 203–9 Bayou (Love), 190, 203–9 Bearden, Romare, 204 Bechdel,Alison, 169 Beloved (Morrison), 188, 198, 200–201 Bennett, Joan, 14 Berger, John, 108 Bernie Rosenthal, 68 Bet-a-Million Bashby, 11 Beverly Hills Cop, 73 Big Leviticus, 3 Billy, 206–7 Birmingham,Ala., 161 Birth of a Nation, The, 72 Bissette, Stephen, vii, 55, 188, 190, 191, 203, 205 Black Lightning, 139 black militant figure, 202 Black Panther, 139 Black Power, 106 Black Rufe, 16 blackness, 142, 154, 261, 286, 302, 317; authenticity, 30, 32; imagery, 46, 140, 153, 155–56, 301; southernness, 45, 48, 56 Blight, David, 108 Blitzer,Wolf, 302, 317, 320 Blue Muslins, 50 Bogle, Donald, 72 Bowers, Sam, 92 Boy’s Own Story, A (White), 163 Bradley, Ed, 310 Branscome, James, 22 Brer Rabbit, 203, 208, 209 Brickhouse,Anna, 302 Bridge, The (Marlette), 90–91 Brinkley, David, 302, 318 Brontë, Emily, 56 Brown, Rita Mae, 163 Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 92 Buckwheat, 45 Bucky, 63, 66, 71–78 Bumbazine, 30, 32–33, 35–40, 43–48, 56, 58n8 Burns, Bob, 14 Bush, George H.W., 64 But Now I See (Hobson), 162, 164 Butler, Octavia, 190 Byrd,William, II, 23 Cabin in the Cotton, 14 Cable, George Washington, 5 Caldwell, Erskine, 16–17 Camper, Cathy, 169 Canot, Theodore, 122, 125 Canova, Judy, 14 Caplin,Alfred Gerald. See Capp,Al Caplin, Catherine, 5, 15 Caplin, Elliott, 4–5, 6, 22, 25 Capote, Truman, 163 Capp,Al, x, 3–27 Captain America, 62–63 Captain America, xiii, 63, 66–69, 71–81, 83, 84–85n1 Captain America No More, 63, 66, 73, 84 Captain Confederacy, xi, 66 Captain Easy, 3 carnival, 29, 53, 54, 152, 227 Carolina, 14 Caroline, or Change (Kushner), 169 Caron, Tim, xiii Carroll, Lewis, 205 Carter, Billy, 98 Carter, James Bucky, 69 Carter, Jimmy, 98 Carter Family, 15 cartoony, 31, 45, 46 Caruth, Cathy, 311 Cerebus, 45 Chaney, James, 92, 182n2 Chaney, Michael, 190 Charleston, S.C., 117 Index 331 Chesnutt, Charles, 5, 56, 197 Child, Lydia Maria, 115 Choctaws, 208 Chopin, Kate, 5 Christian evangelism, 9 Churchy LaFemme, 35 Chute, Hilary, 277, 282–83, 290n3, 307, 309 Civil Rights Act (1990), 64 Civil Rights Movement, 65, 98, 161, 169; representations in comics...