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Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel.

Publication: MELUS
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel. Aaron McGruder and Reginald Hudlin (w); Kyle Baker (a). New York: Crown, 2004. 137 pages. $25.00 cloth. New York: Three Rivers P, 2005. $14.95 paper.

Little is spared the satiric critique of Birth of a Nation, the 2004 graphic novel co-authored by Aaron McGruder and Reginald Hudlin, and illustrated by Kyle Baker. Taking the Florida electoral debacle of 2000 as its starting point, the comic relocates the tragedy to East St. Louis, a city in a seemingly perpetual and altogether hopeless state of urban blight. Unwilling to surrender the franchise without a fight, the city's mayor leads East St. Louis to secede from the union, which, with the help of his billionaire friend, becomes the newest off-shore bank and wealthiest nation in the process. Developed originally as a film treatment, the text takes on African American apathy, materialism, violence, popular...

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